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  • Volunteers at work

    Volunteering for FoBV is an education, and we always want our volunteers to learn from the best. Last month we were lucky enough to benefit from the expertise of Jason Mordan, Nottinghamshire County Council’s historic restoration officer. Jason explained and demonstrated the method of mixing and applying lime mortar to the brickwork of the viaduct’s…

  • Group tours of Bennerley Viaduct

    Volunteers from the Friends of Bennerley Viaduct organise a regular programme of public tours; we also welcome pre-booked groups such as the three local groups that visited in September. These included 25 people from Derby Social Circle, 15 from Thom’s Blokes, a men’s social group based at St Thomas’ Church in Chesterfield, and a group…

  • Iron-2-Iron bike ride is back!

    Spurred on by a successful tour last year, the Iron to Iron cycle ride is going ‘back2back’! The national bike ride fundraiser for Friends of Bennerley Viaduct kicks off on Sunday 13th September and this time the peloton is starting in the east. The intrepid cyclists plan to ride from Great Yarmouth to Bennerley Viaduct,…

  • Chips with everything

    Our hard-working team of volunteers have been busy making improvements to footpaths on and around the site. Completion of the visitor centre has allowed the vehicular route below the viaduct to be reopened, enabling us to take delivery of much-needed woodchip. Volunteers have been hard at work with wheelbarrows and rakes to reinstate the woodland…

  • Eclipse draws the crowds

    An estimated 2000 people – the most believed to have ever been on the deck at one time – assembled on Bennerley Viaduct to view the partial eclipse of the sun on August 12th. Crowds converged on the deck of the viaduct to get a grandstand view of the celestial spectacle, setting up deck chairs…

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