Day 1 - Arrival

Day 1, volunteers arrived, said their hellos, found a spot to sleep, and had the mandatory health and safety briefing, followed by an essential and entertaining toolbox talk about the potential pitfalls of the WRG toaster from George (Georgeous).

The group then put on their steelies and hi-viz jackets and headed down to the site where camp leader, Steve, explained the work that would be taking place over the following week.

The group will be finishing the steps on Constition Hill footbridge.

The lock walls at Staveley Town Lock will be back-filled and compacted down with a remote controlled roller.

Diggers will be working in the area below the lock to create footings for side walls.

After the site tour, the group got familiar with the variety of tools they would be using. 

After the visit the group tasted their first hearty meal of the camp - bangers and mash followed by Eton mess courtesy of the lovely Georgeous.

pre camp

 

 https://www.waterways.org.uk/wrg/

 

 http://www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/index.php

                                      
                        
http://www.dofe.org/

This summer a group from the waterway recovery group will be going to Staveley near Chesterfield, the aim of the camp is to carry on build a new lock , The group will be about 20 volunteers from all over the England and France and ages from 18 to 72 , male and female volunteers,
The work over the week will be very varied  from block laying to machine operating  and everyone will get a chance to try everything , 
In the group there will some doing their Duke of Edinburgh's Gold award Residential part http://www.dofe.org/en/content/cms/doing-your-dofe/activities-sections/residential/
we will be staying in Staveley welfare miners club 


below are some photos of the lock before we start work

                                                                            

This is looking down onto the lock from the road bridge

 

 

 

 

A new wall of blocks to be laid on the right

 Looking back towards the road bridge

 Inside the lock

 

One of the wing walls that have to be built up

This wing wall needs more blocks and the backfill with stone

 We have to dig out this area and lay a sub base ready for a concrete footing

 

This wing wall need to be painted black and back filled and rolled

 A photo of the block wing walls so far

 

 

 

 

Behind this wall it  has to back filled and a ramp made into the base of the canal