Restoration - Week 40

Lovely weather again this week and cracked on with the stone cleaning on the East terracing, managing to clean & refill another two 1/3 terrace steps with red blaes. Removed another ten buckets of spoil from this terrace this week and almost finished this 1/3rd section of the ground.

The slow work this week has been chopping out and digging up the deep roots left by the removed small trees between the missing concrete, but pleased to say we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel! Obviously we are only a year in to the work and have a mountain to climb but the work is

now quite obviously improving the old ground. We also worked hard on reducing and flattening out the running track and cleared around another 20 feet of it and brought it back down 2 inches to it's original level. This will be rolled and packed hard before we can resurface it lightly but it is much

much improved already this year. Also began trimming the edges of the playing surface to define it properly and cut away the weeds and line out a natural drainage level below the grass for rainwater to escape into which should really help the pitch recover after bad weather. This has pooled here in

recent years and become overgrown and exacerbated the waterlogging of this part of the pitch in recent years, turning it into a bog and the aim is to dry out the pitch as much as we can naturally by restoring the original levels of both the playing surface and the surrounding track.

As you can see above this is looking much better and becoming a much safer surface for runners as we go along. Then it was back to the stone cleaning as the weather dried up and restored another couple of terrace steps this week. Lots of hours put in this month already but getting results now!