gallery
photographs by Martin Watts ex Hon Sec RGPNR in roughly reverse order
Our volunteer Vic building a ramp across a particularly muddy & unstable rivulet.
Shows height of tip in 2014 against a mobile phone mast for comparison, the mast was torched & both mast & tip are now [2017] removed. Gives an idea of the height of the tip at its apogee.
Recent lunch at the weir. The Hon Sec [MNW] is in centre in red/blue. [2017]
Local residents [John & Jan], Bromley Council, Environmental Agency & the Deputy Hon Sec [Linda Graham] mark the close of the W4F tip. [2017]
Martin Watts, Honorary Secretary to the Ruxley Gravel Pits Nature Reserve.[2017]
The Waste4Fuel tip nearly gone; 30th October 2017.
Gold Crest trapped & ringed at Ruxley 29th October 2017.
Linda Graham; Deputy Honorary Secretary showing regrowth of phragmites after the fire of March 2017.
Team work at Ruxley [2017]
tools ready to attack the regrowth.
Step repair July 2017.
Twayblade, a medium-sized orchid seen here, this photo is from July 2017.
grass snake spotted on the reserve in June 2017 [NB after the fire in March 2017]
Dave Hutton, Head of Reserves West, KWT & sec.
Common meadow rue in flower; now uncommon with only one known stand at RGPNR June 2017
Recovery of the common reed [May 2017] after the fire of March 2917
the W4F tip nearly cleared [May 2017]
Paul Glanfield - Warden - Kent Wildlife Trust & the depute Hon. Sec. Linda Graham [April 2017]
a view of the nature reserve after the fire of March 2017
repairs to bridge July 2016
lobbying James Brokenshire MP for Sidcup & Old Bexley about climate change in June 2015 on behalf of RGPNR