Today we were called to clean up the mud from Pikeing Well to make it look nice. Win and her friend from the Friends of New Walk were waiting for us with an assortment of spades, buckets and various size of Wellington boots.

Ed an Michal went straight at it and started shovelling the sludge that included some sticks, leaves and stones into the buckets. They were soon joined by Leanne and bucket after bucket the stone floor of the well was being uncovered.

Amy and Paul led on the mud disposal part and together with Win and her friend were taking buckets full of watery substance to empty them straight into the river. Due to the splash back effect this part of the task has proven to be the dirtiest. Soon both of them looked like they have just done some serious muddy trail running.

In Georgian times people used to drink water from this well for health - Win

Well, we were definitely not going to try that today. However water in the well must be clean enough as we found some small fish in there. I guess that the fish were brought in by the recent floods and started to call the well a new home. We however thought that the fish will be much happier in the open river water and transported them in the buckets back to the river.

Filled with positive energy we had great time promoting GoodGym to a number of passerby’s who stopped to see what is occurring.

After just over 30 minutes the task was completed and we decided to go for a well deserved liquid refreshment, which wasn’t the water from the well.