Main Path Edging and the Tree House
Photos: 9 February 2016
Text: 19 March 2026
Following the major Timber Chipping work that had been done last November and in spite of The Claim in the report dated two days after this that no work had been done on the path in a month, I have found these photos in my archives which suggest there had been at least some preparatory work carried out.
It is possible the planks were laid here on 17 January, but that seems unlikely. They were recovered from the old fishing stands which had been taken down by the Green Team a year earlier and stored as it had been the plan to use them, at some point, for path edging.
The photos were taken at a point when no others were taken, shortly before 15:00. That suggests to me they were taken on completion of a piece of work, and that would have their collection from where they had been stored and after they'd been laid out where they were to be used, in the near future.
There were other photos taken on that day. They were of the Tree House, but taken over and hour later shortly after 16:00. It might have been that rather than the earlier photos being taken at the end of a piece of work they were taken at the beginning, but that seems unlikely and isn't supported by what was written at the time, on 11 February 2016, where it says the plan was "to produce an edging on the side sloping down to the dyke and dig up tree roots to create a path that would be level and not have any trip hazards." and says, "Doing that took all morning. After lunch it was out with the barrow to take all the chippings I needed from the stack in the front garden."
