The weather Gods were kind to us with bright sunshine replacing the downpour of Spanish storm Miguel which battered Liverpool the previous day. Five committee members were joined by eleven relatives, friends and neighbours, all of one mind; that citizen action will prevail over those who seek to desecrate our…
The war on litter continues… The sunshine provided a warm welcome to the trustees, local councillors and public volunteers who mustered in preparation for the day’s assault on litter. They donned their high-vis uniforms and after discussing tactics, enthusiastically attacked the entrenched enemy along Taggart Avenue, the service road behind…
Twenty plus bags of litter, car parts, a chimney pot, the weather tattered remains of an encampment, the detritus from a champagne-drinking fly-tipper, several vodka bottles (empty) as well as what appeared to amount to the contents of a compost heap. No suggestion is made that such an inventory is…
Friends of Childwall Woods and Fields have been granted funding by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under their new initiative High Street Community Cleanup. With the funding, FCWF has bought equipment to carry out litter picking, not just in the woods and fields but also on the streets next…
Japanese Knotweed has been in the media recently due to its invasive nature. It was named by the World Conservation Union as one of the most invasive species in the world. Japanese Knotweed (JK) is native to China, Japan, and Asia but was introduced into Britain in 1850 as an…
Bramble management is crucial on the fields where the patches of brambles grow so large they threaten to damage the vegetation around them. If left unchecked brambles will creep across large areas covering other vegetation and changing the nature of the woods and fields. A team from the Trust for Conservation Volunteers (TCV) spent…
Another good litter pick by volunteers on a cold Sunday morning. These are just some of the volunteers keeping the woods litter-free. Another group of volunteers were tidying up this area next to Childwall Lane. It’s amazing what gets dumped on these fields. This washing-up liquid bottle has threepence off, old…
Another very successful “litter” pick if the definition of litter includes the frame of an aluminium gazebo and the metal remains of car seats! And other bits of scrap metal. There were seven bin bags of rubbish collected which were differentiated for recycling into bottles, cans and general rubbish. In…
6 volunteers spent 2 hours filling a dozen bin bags with litter. The volunteers covered a number of areas including one about 200 yards from the entrance and further into the site a partly walled area with a large amount of older litter. The litter was taken off-site for disposal…
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Photograph of the litter pick held in Childwall Woods on Sunday 26th August 2018.