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Excavating the lake in 1994

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Work starts following purchase of a Priestman 360 excavator.


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Mike Kitching arrives with a Caterpillar D6 and scraper.


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Colin and Keith Newlove maintaining the Priestman

Work continues into 1995

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The Environment Agency arrive with the Caterpillar D6 dozer driven by Eric

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Colin Newlove and Andy Jeffery fuelling up the Caterpillar D6
ready for another shift.

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Work starts on the construction of the road
 from the Farm to the Lake

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Constructing the Lake car park

The first Fish arrive in 1996

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The lake begins to take shape.

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The Priestman 360 loses one of its tracks!

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The lake starts to fill with water and
the first reeds begin to appear

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Laying down the hardcore for the road to the Lake
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Removing the reeds from the middle of the
Lake that will be replanted around the edge
of the lake
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