The H&G Canal Trust
You are here: Restoration: Over: Restoration in 2005
January
Painting the walls on the ground floor
The recently painted Visitor Centre is our
temporary "mess" room
Cutting & fitting plasterboard to the first floor
ceilings
Cleaning the Victorian parquet floor blocks which
we will re-lay on the ground floor
Our colleagues
from Oxenhall, the "Wrinklies", help clean the floor blocks
Tree planting
in February. The large yew replaces the one which grew in the garden
of the Lock keeper's cottage.
In early
summer, the car park looking quite mature and with the
height-restriction barrier in place
Working (and
resting) on the terrace
In May we opened the Visitor Centre and Tearooms.
Here you see the magnificent map showing the route of the canal and
the Leadon Valley part of it in greater detail.
There are some
fascinating items in the display case flanked by a variety of
historic H&G Canal Company documents.
The interior of the Restaurant which is now open.
For bookings, telephone 01452 332900
The end of the year saw us busy on the letting
bedrooms, fitting skirting and coving, finishing doors and building
a false ceiling in the corridor.
Help
us complete the fit-out of The Wharf House
We work on Wednesdays and
Saturdays,
and often on other days of the week.
If you're able to help, please phone Nigel on 01452
533835
