Local people who helped to rebuild a historic dry stone wall at Huncoat were recognised by a presentation of certificates on Wednesday 27th January.
Guided by a master craftsman from the Dry Stone Walling Association, volunteers learned how to construct the local traditional Pennine Style of wall that has been used for hundreds of years.
The training days were organised by Hyndburn Borough Council as one of the finishing touches at the Spout House community woodland project in Huncoat.
The wall is one of the boundaries of an historic field system dating back to medieval times. Built by the local community in those days, local people have once again helped to restore the wall as a great feature of the community woodland site.
Cllr Eamonn Higgins, who represents the Huncoat ward, presented the certificates which recognised that the volunteers had achieved a range of introductory dry stone walling skills under the AQA Award scheme.
Cllr Higgins said, “I’m really impressed to see what a good job local people have done. The wall was previously crumbled down nearly to ground level and now its properly reconstructed and looking great. Thanks and congratulations go to everyone involved.”
Other AQA craft skills were presented by Phil Barwood MBE, chairman of the Prospects Foundation. Prospects has lots of great opportunities for volunteers and are a local provider of AQA awards.
The Council is hoping to organise more dry stone wall training days during March 2016. Anyone interested should contact Anne Hourican on 01254 388111.
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