by Mike W. » Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:42 pm
Just to add my own personal extra comment - someone said the place took a while to get going, but I would only point out that Ian and I took our first pics on the site on 18 April last year, before any work started (though some vandals had destroyed the old Westgate Wanderers changing block, which I suppose could be taken as getting the job going ! ). And the first (tree clearance) work was photographed on 9 May 2009.
So we have got where we are today in only 11 months ! And that is for something that to me resembles a small town in its scale. There was a lot of preparatory effort that resulted in little being visible to the untrained eye (like mine). Certainly in those early days, there was only a small crew at work (sometimes only twenty guys or even less), because the "real" work could not be started unitl that early stuff was done, whilst now there seems to be dozens of 'em.
And I will emphasise that the pics were done by me, yes, and by Ian Lyon also (plus a few other friends along the road) without whom the job would have been overawing.
But I am starting to sound like the job is almost done - which it ain't, anywhere near, of course. Anyone got a shovel?
Mike W.
Ian L.