The Friends of Bedfords Park are a voluntary group working at Bedfords Park, Havering-atte-Bower, Romford.
Well the year's off to a good start. Lovely day, dry and sunny. And what's even more important - lots of volunteers turned up. This enabled us to tackle 3 tasks on one day. 1) did a bit more clearing on the damselfly pond, this should be it until next winter, 2) cleared more of the ditch along the main bridleway towards Lower Bedfords Road, including partially clearing underneath the track where it turns towards the main pond. We would have cleared it more but Elliot refused to be dragged through the pipe to clear it. You just can't get the (unpaid) staff these days! We'll have to get some drain rods and try again. The 3rd job was to clear out some of the stream that leads into the main pond. This gets very overgrown with grass etc which isn't helped by rubbish and branches etc. And of course we collected litter, about 6 sacks of it. The dipping platform was in the process of being repaired by the Essex Wildlife Trust and was taped off, as can be seen from the photo.
