Tuesday 17th November: Work Party: Those wishing to eat breakfast should meet at the Roadhouse Cafe in Clydach at 8am. Volunteers should assemble at 9am at the Buried Lock site where we hope to finish the dividing wall. The banked garden needs a good tidy.

A cold and drizzly Tuesday morning, probably right for the time of year but quite a change from the last few day’s sunshine, saw the volunteers largely repeating last week’s activities. At the Buried Lock site, Gordon mixed the muck that he, Alan and James used to lay more concrete blocks along the dividing wall.…

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…