Tuesday 10th November: Work Party: Those wishing to eat breakfast should meet at the Roadhouse Cafe in Clydach at 8am. Volunteers should assemble at 9am – It’s a repeat; continuing facing the central wall at the Buried Lock, and associated works, and more gardening at Hebron Road.

Not all our colleagues were available this cool autumn morning, but at the Clydach Lock half a dozen vols continued with the ongoing construction theme. Gordon mixed several batches of concrete and James and Alan began laying a breeze block facing on the off side of the central wall. John G did the labouring today,…

Tuesday 3rd November: Work Party: Those wishing to eat breakfast should meet at the Roadhouse Cafe in Clydach at 8am. Volunteers should assemble at 9am either at the Buried Lock site where we will continue to face the dividing wall or at the Swansea Canal Centre where the gardens require attention. Tea will be taken…

Today the volunteers worked in and around Coed Gwilym Park. The weather was unseasonably warm but interspersed by a few sharp showers. We welcomed Steve Todd, a long-standing member of SCS, and two of his colleagues from CGI. They were here as part of the company’s volunteering day release scheme. In the park, Christina and…

Tuesday 27th October: Work Party: Those wishing to eat breakfast should meet at the Roadhouse Cafe in Clydach at 8am. Volunteers should assemble at 9am in Coed Gwilym Park. The gardens may need further attention but the main task will be to finish laying the concrete slab.

Coed Gwilym Park was the venue for today’s volunteers’ outing, with two important jobs on the to-do list. Our trusty gardening contingent followed last week’s autumn pruning of the border opposite the Heritage Centre with a similar effort on the garden alongside the canoe store. All sorts of shrubs were chopped, trimmed or thinned, with…