Restoration - Week 26

We welcomed visitors from England on 'groundhopping' duties again this week, all of whom were impressed with the change in the place from the photographs they had seen of the ground over the past decade, which was nice to hear. So despite a lot of nonsense this week on Facebook from a certain individual, we pressed on regardless and got another small section of the terracing done.

Cleared lots more terracing of growth and chopped out more large roots and re-aligned another kerbstone this week, still surprised by how much of this largely ignored terracing section is still in situ! Cleaned and polished another 1/3 terrace in this East End of the ground and again filled in

with red ash. And again, the kerbstones are in remarkably good condition once you wire brush all of the thick and damaging moss. This part of the ground is really now emerging from the wilderness.
We removed bundles of branches this week as well and removed 80 buckets of debris from this

terracing and the running track alone. Not to be credited with this work has been galling to say the least, especially as yesterday was my 108th day this year grafting at the park! Instead our critic suggests that the Community Payback Team have done all the work! They have helped yes with basic scraping of 2 terraces and the tennis court area, but ALL of the work is ours. Thankfully we have

carefully documented every single day's work and photographed as we went along but this criticism still rankles. As I have stated before, we are an independent Limited Company, not attached nor affiliated to any football club and our aim is to preserve the remaining terracing and track and pitch wall for the future.

29 feet of the track is now cleared and levelled and another 12 feet of the pitch wall cleaned, brushed and prepared for repainting. So another tough week's work but pleased with the results. Thanks for all the support on Twitter folks. It has inspired us to carry on regardless.