Galleries

Tree work in Gleadless Valley

Tree thinning in the Orchard at Lees Hall and at Lees Hall Wood. Photos kindly provided by William Fairhead of the Gleadless Valley WildLife Trust.

We regularly do work at Blackburn Meadows which is a nature reserve up near Tinsley. Most years we work with the Sheffield Rangers (or to give them their full title "Sheffield City Council Parks and Countryside Rangers") to remove Willow from the Bird Sanctuary as it is preventing Birds from landing at the site.

Residential at Lakes

Every year (sometimes twice a year) we go to the Lakes for a weekend. We generally do some dry stone walling, but we also make the most of the countryside.

Clough Field Woods

Clough Field Woods is our Long Term Project. It was an overgrown allotment site that had been block planted with trees and left for years. These photos show some early work that we did. We managed to raise some money for a contractor, Stuart, to put a footpath through the woods. Our ultimate aim of this project is to convert into a more natural woodland rather than an overgrown allotment site. Photos kindly donated by Pete Worthington.

Early SCV

Sheffield Conservation Volunteers started life over 30 years ago. Here are some photos from the Early Days taken by photographer and then member, Roger Butterfield.

Phil Shaddock gave us this information about the start of SCV. "I was in the initial committee that started the group going. We met in the Old Queens Head and formed the committee with myself as treasurer, Pat Barton (now Davies) as secretary, Heather Hammerton as chair, I think. Pat also designed the original logo. Tony Grice was also involved. Mike Wild was the main driver, he was employed by BTCV and worked out of the Doncaster office."