This was before we had any Land Rover enthusiasts to help us and before we started using the power barrow (Muck Truck). So we had to handball material using wheel barrows. As you can see from the photograph we were already looking for ways of making the job easier.The material was type 1 road building [...]

We were joined on this build day by Kate and James. The diary is sketchy – it looks like we tweeked the trail on the north east corner, adding what we call the “roller coaster” corner. We then moved down the east side cutting the trail to the pond and round the section there. Most [...]

This was another early trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We continued cutting out a route in the woods on the East side of the pitch. None of this was ever used – we went for a more direct line as a temporary measure and that was then adopted as the proper [...]

It’s still early days on the trail and the current aim is to get the basic route finished. Some of the route is a bit bare, and there’s not enough features on it yet, but that will all be sorted in the fullness of time. The aim is add more raised woodwork, bermed corners, jumps [...]

This was a trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We carried on cutting out the new line on the North side of the pitch and also cut a load of new route on the East side. The North part was tweeked slightly on later build days: a section was moved further up [...]

This was a build evening for Phil and Tom. When we arrived then the basis of a route on the North side of the pitch had already been marked out by Steve Smith and his wife. They were responsible for the trail at that time, relinquishing this to Phil in early 2009. We quickly reached [...]