Restoration - Week 28

Another solid week's work done at the old ground and making progress in the East End Terrace. A great feeling reaching the edges of the terracing and digging down to uncover more decent stonework and the original ash infill. 50 years overgrowth removed and will clear the rest of this area this month

and soon have a full 1/3 section of the East Terracing restored.The wet weather has made it easier to shift another 100 buckets of muck from the terracing and running track, with another couple of feet now levelled and compacted again.

Delighted with the results of the work this week and battled through the elements to remove more moss, weeds and rubbish from these steps and filled with more red blaes. Thanks also to whoever left me an extra shovel hidden in the terracing! Much appreciated!

Also removed lots of the winter cut branches and added tonnes of earth to the dump site in the old car park, which we will re-use somewhere in the ground in the future as we are making this as 'green' a project as we possibly can and are recycling everything we find, even the WW2 spoil.

But as you can see from this week's photos, we are really transforming this part of Cathkin Park every single week and racked up hundreds of hours of graft in 2018. Noticed also that the 3rd LRV mural was in a bad state of neglect and started clearing this area too.

It had become badly overgrown and starting to disappear so I cut back the grass, removed the moss and cleared the much out from between the metal. This is an important visual reminder of the old club and actually is based on a tile mural which used to exist inside the Pavilion and put up by

the Council at the request of Bob Laird and as such also needs cleaned and restored to it's former glory. Thanks also to Jim Simonette for lining out the new cricket pitch area behind the car park where we plan on installing nets in time for next season, summer 2019.

So, another good week of restoration work at the old ground. Much to do but another little improvement all round despite the regrowth of the bloody weeds!