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The Community Garden was made possible through the generosity of:
Community Spaces/Groundwork (Big Lottery Fund)
The SITA Trust
The City Bridge Trust
Virador Credits Environmental Company
The Nind’s Wandsworth Church Trust
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The grand opening!
COMMUNITY BEDS IN SOUTHERN GARDEN
HARDWOOD BENCH
This is now painted & clad in ipe timber.
RESIN BOUND GRAVEL
The Southern Garden paths & most of the front Entrance is now complete.
A newly planted Olive against red bricks and a darkening sky.
Planting has progressed well in the mild autumn weather.....
Composting before planting
Bare root Hawthorn plants
Soaking before planting
Planting wildlife hedgerow
Rosa rugosa hips
Planting herbs against south facing wall
A great moment in the Garden Project at St. Andrews.
Planting began today.
Plants are stored behind security fencing.
Open ground plants in bundles have had roots soaked in a bin of water & are
stored wrapped in tarpaulin.
NEW GATE ON WAYNFLETE STREET
New gate installed leading into Community Beds off Waynflete
Single gate posts with stays falling in centre of railings panel
Brick edging & threshold installed
BRICK THRESHOLD ON GARRATT LANE
Engineering bricks laid flat & butt jointed
CANT BRICK EDGING ON WAYNFLETE STREET
Gaps left in brick edging infilled with matching bricks.
BRICK EDGING DETAIL TO FRONT OF CHURCH (photos 6&7)
Engineering bricks laid flat, end to end & butt jointed
Mitred to follow corners of church.
Type 1 MoT scalpings installed as base to tarmac dressed in resin bound gravel.
Great progress has been made on the labyrinth. A concrete screed has been laid along the paths between the different shaped setts which mark out the path edges. This has left 20mm to be filled with resin bound gravel.
Work has continued on the sett edgings to the paths and the base layer of scalpings in readiness for the resin bound gravel.
RAILINGS
Warren gates have curved the existing railing panels to form a recessed entrance
to the southern garden off Garratt Lane.
Lots of cutting, grinding, brute force & welding to achieve a quarrier circle
curve on both sides of the entrance.
The cuts & welds need lots of cleaning up & filling before painting.
Double gates & gate posts have been installed between the curved railings.
The single gate on Waynflete street has also been installed.
LABYRINTH
Tegula sett detailing of the labyrinth can now be seen.
Space between setts is infilled with screeded concrete before resin bound gravel
is applied.
BRICK & STONE CURVED SEATS
We have set out for the brick seats & masked off the adjacent tegula setts to
keep them clean.
Brickwork starts tomorrow (fingers crossed)
NORTHERN GARDEN
Clearance continues.
Veggies retained for now.
A plate vibrator being used to compact the hardcore base to the paths.
The location of the new gate onto Waynflete Street.
With rain imminent a gazebo is for tea breaks is erected.
John and Hilary discuss the soakaway box installed to disperse water that will
be collected from the Garden's hard surfaces.
A plastic pipe will conduct water from the back of the Yellow Room to the tap to
be installed near the south east door.
KC Drains have been attempting to remove tree roots from the pipes under the
garden. If they are unsuccessful and have to install new drains there will be a
delay to the Garden build.
EXCAVATIONS
In southern garden excavations are pretty well complete & almost all the
arisings have been removed.
MATERIALS
We now have all bricks, drainage & paving materials on site & a good reserve of
cement & aggregates including an 18tonne load of quarry scalping as paving base
material.
Crossley Stone Quarries in Halifax have quarried stone & have set it up for sawing radius segments. We have checked dimensions again on site. This will be ready in a week or two.
DRAINAGE
We have installed a 1cubic metre soakaway. The subsoil is a free draining sand &
gravel mixture which is ideal. Pipework is to connect to channel drain in front
of south west door & to a landflex pipe which will run around the northern edge
of the labyrinth. It is extended to be available to use to collect water off the
front of the church if needed. Soakaway modules are wrapped in geotextile
membrane & backfilled with hardcore capped with scalpings & concrete adjacent to
the labyrinth
CHANNEL DRAINS
The channel drain in front of south west door is installed & connected to
soakaway & we have also installed a channel drain at the south east door which
will discharge into the existing gully. We have rebuilt the gully surround.
MAGNOLIA TREE
The Magnolia has been pruned, rootballed, transported & replanted. It went well.
I think it's chances of survival are better than 50%.
RAILINGS
Warren Gates have done the first phase of their work. Railings on Garratt Lane
in front of the church have been removed & the gate into the southern garden has
been removed. Railings have been modified & reinstalled returning through 90
degrees onto the corners of the church. They need further work. Priming &
painting exposed metalwork, stays replaced & ball finials on new posts.
Next task will be to curve 2 panels to form recess for new entrance & to remove
gates from front of church (in above picture) & reinstate in southern garden.
This will start towards the end of next week.
The railings partially removed from the west end of church.
View looking west towards the labyrinth showing aggregate for foundations and
drainage piping.
The 'earth' end of the lightning conductor revealed during excavations.
View of the South Garden looking west towards Garratt Lane.
John Sallis and Hilary Harris inspect the construction materials.
Clearance and excavations are underway.
Stripping turf.
Green waste for recycling.
Rubbish from the back of the church - mixed waste which is difficult to recycle.
Excavation of the old path to become lawn and planting.
Hardcore and subsoil for recycling. Will be removed by grab lorry.
The benches have been moved to provide a 'desk' for planning and somewhere for a
cup of tea!
Denise Mumford (Garden Project Chair) Hilary Hanslip (Lead Professional) and
John Sallis (Landscape Architect who submitted the winning tender) discuss the
finer points of the proposed labyrinth.
The 'English Bond' brickwork of the church will be mirrored in the brick base
sections to the stone seating.
The 'memorial' Magnolia stellata to the left is being carefully relocated.
The site of the labyrinth.
The Southern Garden the day before work starts. A green space in the busy, built up Earlsfield. Passed by hundreds of people daily but few enter the garden.......
