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2018



Saturday 15th December


Monthly Clean-up of the Canal Path (Yellow Brick Road)


















Some of the rubbish collected with the volunteers including Ian Watson, Graham Burns,

and Fay and Roger Bravey from MSCS


















Some more collected rubbish  including discarded fridge!






















Some more bags arriving!























Two volunteers with the collected litter which included 44 bags!




Thursday 13th December


Monthly Clean-up of the Fallowfield Loop

















Some bags from the litter pick including House for Sale signs!




























Some volunteers with the collected litter























Part of the Fallowfield Loop path now looking nice and clean!




Please click  here  to read a report in the Guardian regarding cycleways in Greater Manchester including the Fallowfield Loop.


Saturday 10th November


Monthly Clean-up of the Canal Path (Yellow Brick Road)























Roger and Fay Bravey with other volunteers at the litter pick where

35 bags were collected.




Thursday 8th November


Monthly Clean-up of the Fallowfield Loop























Volunteers at the litter pick where 10 bags were collected.



Please click  here  to see the November 2018 Newsletter.


Saturday 20th to Sunday 21st October


Autumn Clean-up of the Fallowfield Loop























26 blue bags of recyclable rubbish, which were collected at the above event at the

Quadrants, Levenshulme, as well as 28 black bags of non-recyclables.



Saturday 22nd September


Openshaw Festival















From the left, MSCS members Graham Burns, Roger and Fay Bravey, and

IWA members John Foley, Barry McGuiness and Mike Matthews.

Many thanks to Mike, our new member!























From this screenshot of a video, MSCS members Liz Watson, Roger Bravey, Graham Burns

and Fay Bravey, with John Foley from IWA


Thank you to our new members, who joined today!



Sunday 16th September


Manchester Road Park Fun Day


















MSCS members Fay Bravey, Margaret and Peter Burns, Robert Twigg and Peter Scott
























MSCS members Graham Burns, Robert Twigg and Peter Scott with Stockport Mayor

Walt Brett and MP Andrew Gwynne






































Peter Scott from MSCS with MP Andrew Gwynne.  Many thanks to Andrew for

these last two photos, and also to Peter for this  video  from the event.



Sunday 19th August


North Reddish Park Fun Day


















From the left , MSCS members Graham Burns and Robert Twigg



Friday 10th August


Morrisons Supermarket, Reddish



















From the left, Peter and Gwen Scott, Fay Bravey and Graham Burns,

all from MSCS


We gained seven new members at this event!



Saturday 16th June


Clayton Hall Open Day























MSCS stall in Clayton Hall grounds












































Fay and Roger Bravey on the left and Graham Burns on the right all from MSCS

with IWA Manchester Branch working party organiser Steve Connolly
























Clayton Hall


































































Clayton Hall living history museum, Ashton New Road, Clayton, M11 4RU





Sunday 10th June


Manchester Histories Fair


































Graham Burns from MSCS on the right with two lovely gentlemen from IWA


Many thanks to IWA Manchester Branch who supplied the photo


This was an interesting event held at Central Library, where we shared a stall with IWA.  It proved to be quite successful, as we managed to distribute several leaflets and also gained one new member!


Saturday 2nd June


Stockport Canal (Yellow Brick Road) Clean Up























Some volunteers at the litter pick - from the left, Ian Watson and Graham Burns from MSCS,

and volunteer Dorka











































Ian Watson by Ashton Old Road Bridge






































Looking North towards Ashton Old Road Bridge













































Looking North towards Ogden Lane Bridge



























Old Dry Dock Entrance
























































































Gorton Aqueduct
























































































All these photos show how nice the canal path looks after the litter pick!




Please click  here  to see the May 2018 Newsletter.


Please click  here  for details regarding the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force on 25th May 2018.


Please click  here  to see the March 2018 Newsletter.