STUDENTS from Helsby High School were given high praise from the High Sheriff of Cheshire after restoring a neglected garden outside the old station master’s house in Frodsham.
The North Cheshire Rail Users Group (NCRUG), with Duke of Edinburgh and Helsby High School students Harry Schofield, Matthew Barr and Daniel Delooze, were visited by High Sheriff Mrs Diana Barbour – who gave the group a £200 grant – on Monday.
The students shifted many barrowloads of old concrete slabs, rubbish, ballast, broken glass, tree roots and vegetation from the plot which had not been touched for at least 50 years, and they unearthed a small area of original cobbles which remain as a special feature.
NCRUG members, who tend the station platform gardens, donated plants from their own gardens for the project, and the grant was used to buy more plants, topsoil and timber to edge the restored plot, which now greets rail passengers with a colourful display on the station approach road.
NCRUG chairman Janet Briggs said the group was also grateful for support from Gleaves Home and Garden Centre and Arriva Trains Wales.
