Events: February Working Party

Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd February 2013: Working Party, Daisy Nook [info: 0161 355 5557]
Our second working party of 2013 is a two-day party with the support of Waterway Recovery Group. This will be our second weekend working on the Tameside section of the canal running towards Littlemoss.

Why not come along and join in? Even if you have not been on a working party before, you will be made welcome! Big muscles are not essential as you can be given work to suit your capabilities! You can come along on just one day or on both days.

Meet at Daisy Nook Car Park, Stannybrook Road, at 9.30 am on each day. Strong footwear and waterproof clothing recommended. Lunch and hot drinks will be available for a small charge.

Please phone our Working Party Organiser, Mike, on 0161 355 5557 for more information.

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.