This photograph shows the area where the pond now stands, prior to construction starting. So this photograph is probably pre-1998 and shows just how barren the area was. The small staked trees in front of the Scout-hut show the original location of the Derek Slade spinney - many of the trees being moved to the other side of the path to make room for the pond to be dug.

One year on - this photo was taken in August 1999 and shows the view over the smaller, upper pond. Note the bridge and dipping-platform construction have been completed and the terraces towards where the path now is.

This is actually a fairly recent photograph, with the information board and dipping platform in place and mature hedging and pond vegatation. It also illustrates a typical problem - low water levels. Since this photograph was taken, the pond has been dredged out to be approx 1/2 metre deeper and the pond-bed sculpted, so that the deepest water is right in front of the dipping platform, which has also been re-modelled, so that both sides are at the height of the lower portion.

Very early days - the dipping platform is only half of what it would later become.

After first being constructed, the pond was left with open access to all, but due to disturbance and contamination by dogs, it quickly had to be fenced in. This photograph shows the original ches-pale fencing and the newly-planted hedge.

Sally Cole and A.N.Other holding a pictoral representation of the pond, to which children had attached their own stick-on creatures. We believe this photograph to have been taken in 2007.

Pond-dipping. This quite recent photograph (2009) shows the mature vegetation around the pond area now.

The completed, but otherwise barren excavation. Would this have been 1998?

The newly-erected information board in September 2009.

The original ches-pale fencing in place.

I believe that the original idea behind this barrier was that they would delineate an area for pond-dippers to stand behind. Unfortunately, the water level never got high enough and they have now rotted away.

Alan Reynolds and assistant digging footings for pond timber constructions.

The bridge under construction.

The main pond shortly after construction, showing part of the current dipping-platform. Not completely sure, but I believe the gravel 'track' shows the path of a drain that was intended to carry surplus water from the main path down through Bloomer's Field.

Both ponds and all major timber constructions now complete, but how bare it all looks!

Planting hedging to form a barrier bahind the ponds.

First planting of shrubs and trees to shield the Scout hut. These have grown a fair bit since then!