We occasionally send our work parties off-site to help in other places.  Recently we visited Mardley Heath, a nature reserve near Woolmer Green, to help by replacing some worn out steps

As a former quarried area the Mardley Heath nature reserve includes steep slopes.  Footpaths crossing these slopes use flights of wooden steps, two of which had become the worse for wear and could have become unsafe.  The Wood Wardens undertook to help replace these flights.

In advance of the work party day itself, timber from Sherrardspark Wood was cut by wardens ready to use for the new steps.  On site we first removed the old steps and then installed the new wooden stringers, wooden risers and stone to form the stepping surfaces.

Few of us had carried out work like this before so we were delighted to achieve good results, which were well appreciated by the Mardley Heath group.