A Lincolnshire waterfront has been brought back to life with a make over – thanks to volunteers.
The Lincolnshire Co-op, the Canal and River Trust and residents in Saxilby took part in the Co-op’s Big Clean.
The clean-up was part of a wider parish council priority project to regenerate the Bridge Street Conservation Area from Saxilby with Ingleby Neighbourhood Plan.
Through the process of developing the plan it was found that the area had been identified as at-risk by Historic England due to ‘severe dilapidation and loss of detailing’ and the community is now working hard to reverse this decline.
More than 30 volunteers from the Lincolnshire Co-op and local residents of all ages got stuck in with a variety of tasks from planting flower containers, to weeding and clearing overgrown community green spaces.
The team worked hard all day filling a skip with green waste.
One exciting find was exposing the old A57 road surface which closed in 1937.
The Big Co-op Clean took place across Lincolnshire with staff, society members and customers giving a total of 1,030 hours to their local communities.
249 colleagues, members and customers pulled on their gardening gloves, grabbed litter pickers and paint brushes, and pulled together to make a difference to green spaces and community projects.
Other projects have included planting up flower beds for Holbeach in Bloom to supporting the valued services provided by St Barnabas Hospice in Louth and Jerry Green Dog Rescue Centre in Brigg.
Other activities took place at Nettleham Woods Trust, Queen Elizabeth Recreation Park in Swaton near Sleaford, Westbourne Grove Environmental Enhancement Centre in Caistor, the Willows Community Centre, Grimsby and Chapel Point beach , near Skegness.