Huddersfield Society of Model Engineers

Our pond down at Highfields was once used as an ice curling rink and to this day once the pond is cleaned you can still see the out line of the rink. If you look around the site you might find the odd curling stone. Over the years our pond has had water leaks by the dozen. We repair one leak and another one appears. We have looked at always to seal the pond but we have always come up against the big stumbling block and that is the money around £40,000 to reline the bottom and sides. We have been able to obtain grants to do some repair work carried out by our members but the only way we can seal the leaks is to be able to replace the sides and the bottom.

A committee meeting was held straight after the AGM to talk about a short term repair to the pond in short term we mean 2yrs no more. One member has come up with the idea of making a liner ourselves out of visqueen plastic and a sealing agent to join one sheet to another and make a water tight seal. This repair is costing around £500 and to fill the pond will cost a further £500 so in total £1000 which to a club our size takes some finding.

A sub committee has been formed to try and find ways of raising so much needed money to make the repair a permernante one. This sub committee is been headed by Mrs B Robinson with help from Mr A Johnston,Mr T Maskell and Mr K Sykes. If anyone can help with this task then please drop us a line via the contact us section on the web page.

Pond Update.

As you can see from the new pictures added to the site the pond liner that we have placed inside the pond is holding the water at a nice level of 10 inches see the gauge photo. The three photos were taken on Friday 13th April 2012. This is the liner that we hope will help us stage events over the next two years until a temporary repair can be made a perminante repair. The sub committee set up to raise these fund have been working very hard over the last few weeks and have one or two things in place which they will be working on.