Calder Future | River Day 2008
River Day 2008
Calder Future celebrated its 10th anniversary with its annual ‘River Day’ over the whole weekend of 7th and 8th June. There were a dozen events held up and down the valley, where more than a hundred local people, including organised groups and businesses, were able to ‘do their bit’ to clean up the waterside. See the article and photos in the Halifax Courier.
In Todmorden voluneteers including local youngsters followed a clean-up of the Tipside community space alongside the River Calder with a barbecue, jointly arranged by the Todmorden Riverside Improvement Group and Todmorden Together. In Eastwood residents helped to clean up the river and canal, easily filling a skip with rubbish. There was also a well attended community clean-upin Mixenden along the Clough Bank beck that filled 2 skips with loads of tyres and assorted rubbish!
There were volunteers pulling the invasive Himalayan balsam at two sites in Hebden Bridge, and up at Blackshawhead, and in Brighouse wildflowers were planted next to Clifton Beck in Wellholme Park, an event organised with the Parks service. Staff at Suma Wholefoods cleaned up their stretch of the river at the Lowfields Estate and, on Sunday, the Halifax Sub-Aqua Club kept cool in the water and pulled a skip-full of rubbish out of the Calder at Elland Bridge.
There were also two canalside walks to celebrate the weekend, looking at trees and flowers. On the Saturday the walk followed the ‘Route 66’ cycletrack from Sowerby Bridge to Hebden Bridge, looking at the folklore of trees. The walk was to publicise an initiative to install mosaics on the theme of ‘the language of trees’ in the woodland at the rear of Holmes Park, Luddendenfoot (near the Rochdale Canal). These will be officially unveiled at a gala event in the Park on Saturday 21st June from 3pm till 6pm
7th June ‘River Day': What happened where
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WHERE |
WHEN |
WHAT |
CONTACT |
MEETING POINT |
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BLACKSHAWHEAD |
10:30 to 1pm |
Pulling balsam in Colden Clough |
Phil 01422 844871 |
At the New Delight Inn, Jack's Bridge, between Colden & Blackshawhead |
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BRIGHOUSE |
10am to midday |
Planting of wildflowers in Wellholme Park |
Gavin 07772 318 566 |
By the café in the park, entrance from Bradford Rd. |
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EASTWOOD |
10am to 12.30 or 1pm |
Pulling Balsam and Litter pick |
Abigail 01706 818863 |
Beside Masonic Hall on Halifax Rd (Stoodley Glen) |
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ELLAND |
10am to 1pm |
Litter and Balsam |
Sandy
at Suma |
Behind Suma Foods, Lowfields Estate |
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HEBDEN BRIDGE 1 |
10am to 12.30 or 1pm |
Pulling Balsam on cycletrack |
Geoff |
At end of cycletrack by Hebden Br. Station |
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HEBDEN BRIDGE 2 |
10am to 12 noon |
Pulling Balsam on Hebden Water |
Jason
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Humped back bridge at end of Spring Grove |
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MIXENDEN |
10am to 1pm |
Litter Pick of Clough Bank Beck |
Val
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Holy Nativity Church Sunnybank Road |
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MYTHOLMROYD |
11am to 1pm |
Pulling Balsam |
James
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St Michaels Church Car Park |
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SOWERBY BRIDGE |
10:30am start |
Tree identification walk along the canal towpath |
Alison
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Meet at the Route 66 cycletrack - entrance to the towpath at the top of Hollins Mill Lane by Hollins Lane for a 6m walk to Hebden Bridge |
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TODMORDEN |
10.30am to 1pm |
Site maintenance, litter-pick and barbecue with Todmorden youth |
Penny
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Tipside (behind indoor market) |
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ADDITIONAL EVENTS TAKING PLACE THE FOLLOWING DAY, SUNDAY 8th JUNE: |
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ELLAND 2 |
10:30am to 12:30, |
River litter sweep with the Halifax Sub-aqua Club |
Hilary
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Elland Bridge – meet at the entrance to the Riverside Park |
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SOWERBY BRIDGE |
2pm , |
Canalside walk led by local ecologist Colin Duke |
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Meet at the entrance to towpath at Sowerby Bridge Wharf (by the Moorings p/h) for a 3m circular walk |
