Ash on the old brickworks at Styal 2 Feb 2014

Thanks to Adrian for the text and photos.
Four volunteers turned out to Styal and spent the day on an area of land known as the "Old brick works" - though most of the bricks we saw looked modern!

The work was cutting down ash trees (thinning) on the site of the old brick works and feeding them into a chipper.  As quite a lot of trees had already been felled when we got there we concentrated on moving the felled trees to the chipper and tidying the site.

At the end of the day when we took the tools back to the store we saw a cottage which is being built on the village green as a set for the channel 4 drama series The Mill. Despite its substantial appearance, the cottage is built of fake bricks stuck over chipboard, and will be removed after filming, however, the rood appeared to be real slate.