New River Path closed

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on September 13, 2024 at 4:03

Here are a couple of photos I took yesterday. The first shows a pontoon constructed behind the mosque. When I passed by the men seemed to be cutting out a length of the fence by Denmark Road.  The second photo shows some strange looking construction materials, I assume for bank reinforcement.

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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on September 14, 2024 at 11:10

It looks to me as though they will be replacing the old wooden revetments that line the Eastern bank alongside the mosque site. I guess the pontoon is simply to allow the workers to cross over with the equipment and materials from the other bank where it is all stored.

Someone told me that fresh water crayfish get behind the rotting revetments and bore into the bank. That was a new one on me. I thought only voles and coypu (which we don't have around here) did damage of that sort.

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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on October 23, 2024 at 10:56

I noticed yesterday that the path has been reopened.  Moreover, noisy work went on this morning to cut back the horrible brambles etc that were arching over the path through the fence from a neighbouring garden.

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Permalink Reply by Samantha Osborne on October 24, 2024 at 14:44

Out of interest how is the path accessed from the Finsbury Park  end of Wightman Road? 

I can often spot the river from behind a gate, however wasn't even away that it could be accessed.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 24, 2024 at 15:02

Sadly, it’s not accessible from that end. I understand that at one point it was all open, or was going to be open, but was closed following representations from those who lived alongside it.

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