The Arns Drainage scheme  
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Last update 16/11/2004
The Arns Drainage Scheme

The club would like to thank all those members and friends who donated so generously to the "Save the Arns fund".

 
   
A panoramic view of the Arns before the work begins (no full size view available)
   
Go dig it man!
Drain digger on site
Careful crossing the road!
     
Inserting the inspection manhole concrete chamber or hiding the worlds biggest polo mints?
   
Jamie checkin' out the mints
Friday 8th October and its Race day!!
The first main drain
   
Digger/layer/backfiller
The "do it all" big yellow machine
The wee yellow thingy is the drainage pipe
 
Not a cloud in the sky, long may the weather continue
         
"If it takes 10 men to dig a hole...................."
 
Not the normal view of the pavilion
 

The BIG Pipe layer

The first leader drain
Ah! the weather breaks
 
 
Get some gravel into your game!
View from the road
 
Another view from the road Wet intit!
 
 
You can't make an omelette without breaking roads
         
How green is my grass!
And the score is?
 
 
Oh what a beautiful morning *%#*@!
       
Oh what a B*#~* Awful day.
   
After the flood
 
 
Stage 1 at the road end
The start of the railway end
   
Wet and muddy
 
 
The sunshine after the rain
     
what a nice view - apart from the mud like!
     
Arnsbrae in autumn - whit bonny - mud
   
 
A gravel delivery
Still signs of the heavy weekend rain
   
View from the road
 
 
Mud, Mud glorious mud.
   
       
Change of tack
The wee drainage machine
a picture by John Barrie ground complete waiting on the grass to grow.    
Drainage complete
Drainage complete, tidy up underway, grass seed and finishing in the spring. Cricket next season, but when??