Ok so the work begins today - 20/08/08

These pictures show the extent of the mile long stretch, to be fair I never thought I’d get them taken at all. As the path is so bad it’s essential to use a mountain bike to get down, go to the garage my bike has a flat tyre, so I hop on my daughters smaller mountain bike, get half way down the line and the chain snaps. Suffice to say we Guerilla Gardeners have to fight on so I did and these are the pictures.

To any locals looking at the pictures, I have taken some reverse shots on my way from Almond Brook to Somerfield just to show the extent of the land in this area, and in some ways to show what it looked like before some more dastardly housing developers move in to cut the green belt down some more.

Oh and for those real nature buffs, if you look at the ponds half way up this is a little nature reserve for Great Crested Newts picture on the right, and to quote the BBC -

Great crested newts are Britain’s largest newt species. Although now afforded some legal protection in the UK, populations have declined over recent years as a result of the destruction and fragmentation of their habitat.

I reckon another reason why the Standish Line should have a little more protection - any chance of making it a proper footpath with a nice sign and some protection ???

The last few pictures show the path that I did on the last part of the project but as you get to the very end of the images you will see the place where the stone ran out, with a bit of luck this area will be widened and for sure new stone.

So there you go - I’ll do another tour as work progresses!!!!