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Our year for some of us started with the Green Lane Clean-up day.
Officialy twice a year in February and October a date is set aside
for repairs etc to green lanes and usually this is in conjunction
with the local council in the area.
On the 26th Feb we met up in a cafe in Glossop
for a hearty breakfast on a very cold Sunday Morning and then off
we went towards Little Hucklow in Derbyshire for our first lane.
Some of the Big Boys brought there Little Boys who also got stuck
in to Help. |
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We
had chosen 5 lanes to have a look at and these we had first Cleared
with Derbyshire
C.C. as some trees do have preservation orders on them and we
arn't allowed to touch them but after checking, these lanes were
going
to be O.K.
The lane we did near the Quarry at Stoney Middleton proved to
be quite busy. After one of our late members had come down it he
then joined us to clear it. Leaving 3 at the bottom, 2 in the middle
and 2 to the top, we had to do some shuffling round for a group
of three land Rovers coming down to pass us and then a group of
Bykers passed. On top of that we had a few walkers. After this
we went on to a car park to have dinner.
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The next lane was the most over grown out of the
ones we'd chosen and needed alot of attention. We were carefull
to leave the trimmings
by the lane side and eventually reaching a very large water area
on the lane we decided to call it a day.
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We decided
that while we were in the Hassop area we would do a few green lanes
on the way back home and cosiquently as you can see below we came
a cross a fallen tree.
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Having
the tools with them the lads cleared the way so that we could
drive through.
We
had a good day and then called off for a nice warm and a drink
at the Grouse Inn at Chunal where we hold our 2wice monthly meetings. |
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