Whirlow Hall Farm Fair, 17th Sept. 2006

The Branch will be demonstrating at the Whirlow Hall Farm Fair, Sheffield this Sunday, 17th September 2006. If you would like to learn more about walling then we'd be glad to see you there!

The Penistone Show, 9th Sept 2006

It was a chilly misty start to the day with the grass wet with dew as we arrived at the Penistone Showground ready to do our bit for the 134th Penistone Show. There were people and cars darting here and there as stallholders and competitors raced to get their exhibits ready for the public arriving.

Steve strategically postitions his ashtray before starting work!!

Chris calmly surveys the task in hand perhaps wishing he'd gone fishing instead!

Luckily we had plenty of willing volunteers and it wasn't too long before we had the gazebo erected, leaflets arranged and a start on stripping out the wall. As they say, many hands make light work and we were building the foundations as the general public started filtering into the showground.

Stripping out and preparing for the foundations

The day turned out to be beautifully warm and sunny. We couldn't have asked for a better day! We had pleanty of people visiting us, not only to watch the walling, but also asking questions and making general enquiries about our Branch activities and training courses. Our visitors included Barry and Bob who were on our last training course and Ian who is on our next course at Whirlow Hall Farm on 30th September, Tim from our West Yorkshire Branch and fellow members of other DSWA branches.

We have heard since, and the final count is still to be made, that they ran out of entry tickets for the show - all 18,000 of them; the cash machines in Penistone ran out of money, several food stalls ran out if food and to our horror the beer ran out at the refreshments tent!

The foundations go in as Alan gets stuck into his second breakfast.

Alan, envigourated after his second, or maybe third, breakfast lends a hand with John, Paul, Chris, Steve and Gary all hard at it.

George and Gary supervise as Steve puts on the copestones

Gary puts in the last copestone assisted by John and George.

The team for the day from L to R: Gary, Les, Chris, Alan, Steve, John and Tom. Not on the picture Paul, Mick, Brian and George

Thank you to all the Branch members who gave up their Saturday to help out and build a smashing wall from some ugly looking stone.

The Penistone Show 9th September 2006

The Branch will be demonstrating dry stone walling at the Penistone Show this Saturday 9th September 2006. If you would like any information about dry stone walling, courses or our Branch activities we'd be please to answer any questions you may have. See you there!