WRG NorthWest
We have been told by the editor that if we don t get it in immediately it will be too late - could someone pass the same message on to MKP?
...on the Chesterfield
With 4 of us unavailable tomorrow, progress will be slower which is why we Only half because it is being written on the want to get into print. Chesterfield CT need Saturday evening of a weekend dig, our first of to clear about another 600 yards on this 2008 (at Renishaw on the Chesterfield Canal) section before the nesting season starts and, and we have been told (by the Editor, whose though they have a dedicated workforce of cruise on The Haybay barge we interrupted to their own, they need help. Work parties take ask) that if we don t get it in IMMEDIATELY it place every Sunday from about 10:00 to will be too late for the next edition. [Well, 16:00 and Mick Hodgetts, their WPO, would actually it wasn t quite a cruise - see p41. ...Ed] be delighted to hear on 01246-620695 Despite snow in the Peak District and from anyone who can help even if only floods in Chesterfield itself, Friday night saw once. The site is a couple miles from Junc15 of us gather at The Den , the scout hut in tion 30, M1, so is eminently accessible. Inkersall. This has acquired an extension Malcolm Bridge since our last visit and now boasts a second main room, an extended kitchen, a new central heating boiler and smart tiling in the loos. However, traditionalists will be pleased to learn that the door to the Gents still has no lock, not that one would be of any use as it still won t close. The work was mainly scrubbashing on a site just south of the 2006 Christmas Camp s in preparation for a bank-based clearance by a large machine and an examination by engineers from Derbyshire County Council. Oh, and there was some very hard concrete infill to remove from a spillway which had defeated the camp,. A specific instruction was to pollard only trees WRG NW clearing the Chesterfield spillway whose roots we could remove before leaving so our two Tirfors (both certificated!) were busy all day. Fortunately the ground was quite light and shaley so most came out relatively easily, only one requiring a double Tirfor pull and, by the time that advancing cold and darkness forced us reluctantly back to the hall, about 100 yards of offside bank was clear. Meanwhile, Lynne and John (Foley), with occasional assistance from others, finally managed to create a floating bonfire, there being about 6 of water in the bottom of the dry channel and John (Chase) and Barry got close to Like mother, like daughter finishing the concrete removal.
Here is (half) the North West News
page 39