Photos: February Working Party

Here are some photos from the two day working party in February with Waterway Recovery Group and Tameside Countryside Service. This was the second working party in Tameside and was on the stretch near Littlemoss Camp.


Team briefing at the start of Saturday's work.


Clearing vegetation overhanging the towpath near Littlemoss Camp.


Cutting back trees growing on the towpath.

First Working Party in Tameside

Volunteers from the Hollinwood Canal Society, Waterway Recovery Group and Tameside Countryside Service came together last weekend (6th & 7th October) for a joint working party on the Hollinwood Branch Canal at Well Style, between Littlemoss and Daisy Nook.

This was the first time that the Society and WRG had worked with Tameside Countryside Service. Overgrown vegetation was removed from the disused canal bed, bringing back a more open habitat.

Hollinwood Canal Society chairman Frank Smith said, "The volunteers from Waterway Recovery Group and the Canal Society enjoyed working with the Tameside volunteers in a new location.

"Removing surplus vegetation helps to preserve what is left of the canal's structure. Making the canal more visible helps to make people aware of the canal as part of the historic infrastructure of Tameside."

Tameside Countryside Service provided a heavy duty chipper resulting in a very effective weekend's work opening up an area that had become very closed-in and overgrown.


Above: before. Below: after.



Above: before. Below: after.