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CNTV members share an interest in historic properties and conservation areas found within the UK. As an independent volunteer group we actively support the National Trust by giving up some of our time to help preserve and maintain the properties. Our work is typically on Sundays, but we also carry out longer weekend tasks during the year.
Here's a video of some work we did last year laying paths at Anglesey Abbey, one of the local properties. (We've got some photos from this task in the Volunteering Diary.)
Our annual painting of the Centre, during which Alison B. got her 25-year award from the National Trust. The photos below are from Lop, Tom H., and Andy T. (Click on each photo for an enlargement.)
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Left: Alison in a decontamination suit painting overalls; Centre: With her badge and award
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Some photos from Paul Hollinghurst showing us cutting back a hedge and digging.
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Simon Damant asked us to fill up two trailers with old fence posts that had been dumped in the farm away from the house and grounds. He was taking to wood to an incinerator to start clearing the large pile of old fence posts that exists.
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(Photos: Tom) Sorting out fence posts with Simon. Left: Vicky passing Clare a wooden post to be stacked in the large trailer. Note the untidy pile of wood behind Vicky. Right: At the end of the day, Simon behind a tidy section of the wood pile.
Once the trailers were full, we started to lay the wood in an orderly pile on the ground, ready to fill another trailer. Although the weather forecast was heavy rain, we started work after the showers had passed and the afternoon turned into a lovely day.
Andy Taylor has more photos.
| 30th January 2010 | You can now obtain full-sized photographs from the volunteering diary... [more] |
| 23rd November 2009 | Roger Jayes retires as website maintainer... [more] |
| 13th October 2009 | We have a new advertising brochure which you can download. |
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