Month: June 2017

After helping to save the facade, I researched the station, wrote a book and put up the plaque which I wrote (paid for by the builder).

I repair drystone walls that have fallen around Ambleside and the Lakes Parish by myself or with volunteers.

 

Since I found that there was once a clappergate on a path in Wrexham, built in Victorian times to let ladies in long dresses use the path, I’ve always wanted to build one. However on that path Wrexham County put in a new gate. So when Mehr Fardoonji of Oakcroft Gardens asked me to build one into her woods at Cross O’ the Hill in memory of a friend with whom she used to visit one at the RHS gardens, I designed and built one with the help of a friend. At first the gate didn’t clap due to the wet treated wood but when it dried the sawn post clapped as it closed

Over a thousand stiles, hundreds of gates, bridges, pipes, slopes, signposts, waymarker posts put in for Wrexham County, community councils and Groundwork Trust.

  

Thirty years after building a drystone wall the owner wanted almost matching steps so I sunk stone into concrete.

In 2015 I was asked by the Ramblers to go with two volunteers to the Cambrian Way where a drystone wall needed rebuilding to form a safe platform where a memorial bench for Tony Drake OBE (who designed the Cambrian Way) was to be put. We stayed at the lovely small independent hostel for three nights and rebuilt the wall, as well as exploring the local paths.

Thirty years ago two garden owners in Coedpoeth had me build walls for them. The first 16 foot high 40 foot long wall took 100 hours and the money donated to ‘Live Aid.’