Last minute work

The 2011 bowls season at Lenton Recreation Ground begins on Saturday 9 April and last week saw the bowling green edging on the east side (the Pavilion side) being replaced by new concrete edging. The work was carried out in just one week by two men.  The following pics show them at work…

By the time I arrived thay had used their small digger to wide the gully so that the pre-formed concrete edging could be dropped into place.

To do this they used an amazingly small suction pad which created a vaacum, allowing the concrete edging to be placed accurately.

The suction pad was then released and, hey presto, the edging was in place.

Each piece of concrete edging took less than five minutes to place and with very little effort.  It was impressive to watch.

The wonders of modern laser technology enabled the two men to take just over two days to dig out the old edging, line the bottom with pea gravel and line up all the concrete edging so that it could then be dropped into placed.

I came back the next day and they laid most of the edging.

And by the end of the week they had gone. The new edging in place. Doesn't it look impressive?  With any luck, we should see the other three sides given the same treatment next year. At a time when Nottingham City Council is having to reduce spending on so many fronts, it seems like a real luxury to have this work carried out. From the point of view of a novice, to think that all this was done by two pensioners (the man driving the digger was 71 according to Dave) in just five days was very impressive.