BTCV (Working with Thornhill Bridge Community Gardeners to transform a strip of unused land, which sits on top of the entrance to the Islington Tunnel over the Regents canal into a community garden for local people to grow food. The work will involve landscaping to provide wheelchair access, building nine raised planting beds and laying a fine gravel footpath.
I took part in constructing some of the planters and helped level out the ground. I found this job a breath of fresh air and enjoyed the social side of it too. There were people there who were from all kinds of backgrounds, some were there because they needed a break from the office, some were seasoned green thumbs lending a hand, others were Eco warriors and then was I, a landscape student!
I arrived at Kings Cross St pancras underground station and walked to the head office of BTCV. As it happened the site they were working on was just a stones throw away down the regents canal. The large Kings Cross development and Kings Place complex was next door too.
Here are some pictures:
Looking East along the strip of land with fellow volunteers in shot
Looking West along the strip of land
Levelling the ground underneath the timber planters
Someone hansom sawing wood
Looking East with progression
We had tea and coffee supplies and a device which boiled water by sitting on top of a lit fire with the water within the sides it, pretty neat. I think there is a name for it but I don't know at present!
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