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Here at the Wendover Arm Trust we are busy restoring the largely derelict Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal, from Bulbourne to Wendover.
We have been active for nearly 20 years, and so far have restored the first part of the Arm from Bulbourne to Little Tring, with our volunteers having rebuilt 600 yards of the canal, using modern materials and methods.
Now we are busy rebuilding the canal from Little Tring through to Buckland - a length of about 2 miles. Our volunteers first clear out scrub and undergrowth then dig out the proper profile of the canal before lining the sloping sides with the concrete blocks. The canal bed then gets lined with a special clay material which keeps the canal watertight. Each block has to be brought to the canal and put in place, before being filled with concrete to stabilise it.
But we need 90,000 concrete blocks to achieve this and so we've started the BLOCKAID campaign. It's a fundraising campaign in it's own right and even has it's own website at www.blockaid.org.uk so please do go an see how you can help and how we're getting along!
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