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Drawing
The
surveyors party took
3
men,
1
woman photog-rapher,
6
posts,
1 can of
surveyors' paint, chalks,ribbons, stencils
and
salt,
the
tithe
map of
1840,themost recent
CIS
location equipment
to map
and
markout
the
line
and
route
of the
canal,
and
two days walking. This involved
the
marking
out
ofthe canal route from Masshouse Lane, past thecanal tunnel entrance then working overland
to the
Hopwood tunnel end.
A
number
of
devices were used
to
mark
the
routeranging from: painted posts, chalk lines
on
grass,
blue ribbons, salt, surveyors'
spray
(blue)
on
sur-faces withW&BCstencilled out,
and
measurementsabove sea marked to recognise the constancy of
the
water level
on the
canal running below
and
underneath open
and
public spaces.
So,
HawkesleySquare
sits at 39
feet above
the water of the
canalbelow.
The
Blue Line
was
planned
and
marked
out
over
the two
days before
setting
out a
major drawing across Hawkesley Square on 11 August.This self-standing event markedout on thesurfaceof thesquarethelayersofsiteinformation available
to
cover land use, ownerships, tithes, boundaries,
the
field
names and numbers that the canal passed underneath when it was built, canal depthsand route, tunnel measurements, and a composite drawing of the canal as it passesunderneath this principal public space
in
Hawkesley.On
the
next
day we met
with
50
local residents
to
Walk
the
Line,
and to
engage with
the
Haiku poet
and
collaborator, Paul Conneally
to
record
and
then mark
out
viewsof
the
walk,
the
event,
the
day,
the
moments,
the
connections between places
and
people, memories
and the
future.
Mill
Pool Meadow Brook Leasow
Spoil
Bank Piece
The
Sling
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