Gallery

2018

November

PDMS attended the peer to peer event at the Norwich Forum

PDMS are making WW1 silhouettes which will be displayed in the Poringland Memorial Garden

Projecting the image
The cut out figure
Painting
One silhouette completed

Shedders at the Summer Shows

This Summer has seen PDMS busier than ever at the local Summer Shows. We have been in attendance at The Fair on the Yare, The South Norfolk Show, The Lord Mayor’s Procession and Poringland Village Fete! Here are a selection of photos from those events.

Poringland Village Fete

Lord Mayor’s Procession 

The EACH float
Circus comes to town
Tea break
Much needed Tea break

 

South Norfolk on Show

South Norfolk Show
South Norfolk Show
South Norfolk Show
This is how to make bird box!
South Norfolk Show

The Lean to project

Lean to takes shape
The shedders give Lean to the thumbs up👍

The shed gets rockin‘

Shedder Tim is transforming this unfinished Rocking Horse project.

 

From this
To this
Great gallop!
Wins by a short head!

2017

Edgar Hoddy bowmaker visits shed

John makes Woodburner.

December- Making a door

Make a door
Make a hole
Exit through door

Woodcrafts in the barn

Wood carving
Wood turning

Barn door is reinforced

November-Concrete floor laid

John making the mix
Planning the job
Starting the mix
Everything in place
First batch ready
First barrowload
Concrete goes down
Philip in action
Next barrowload
Spreading the mix
Levelling off

First a hole….Then a Fire Exit Door

The hole
Fire Exit Door in situ

Proposed site for new Poringland Men’s Shed

Location of proposed Poringland & District shed

 

After just 3 months the workshop has taken shape.

Bench in place
Storage racking
2nd bench

October 8th-Silver Sunday Open Day

September-Memorial Field Ditch Clearance

Following a request from local councillor, John Overton a small working party from PDMS cleared the drainage ditch of rubbish.

Working party clears Memorial Field ditch.

July-Making a start

We have now moved everything to The Barn behind The Dove and begun to create a workshop area.

Let there be light!
Out with the old floor
In with the new floor

 

Making a window
Shelving going up
Window open
What a view!
Cladding the walls
A new member!
Checkmate!-Pete repairs an electronic chessboard
Peter

 

Saturday 8th July saw the last of a trio of Summer Fetes that our shedders have supported- this time at Poringland Village Fete.

Tim, our bucket ball champ,Roy & Les

Karl and Bird Table

Karl puts the finishing touches to a bird table which had been brought to The Shed by a local householder. Another example of the Repair and Recycle scheme saving unnecessary products going to landfill.

Karl finishes repair to bird table.

From Forge to Barn

June saw us vacate The Forge and move to The Barn

One last few break at The Forge
Packing up at The Forge
Unloading at The Barn

 

 

Fair on the Yare-Claxton

Sunday June 4th saw PDMS pitch up with Birdbox kits and the now infamous Bucket Ball challenge at The Fair on the Yare Summer Fete. A bright sunny day brought out the crowds in this  beautiful setting and £70 was raised. That should keep our Treasurer, Roy happy!

John helping young lad to build his box.
Dave doing QC check
Taking aim
Nice coconuts Dave!
Our Pitch
Les oversees bucket-ball
Bucket Ball challenge.

The Litter Pickers return

For the third year running PDMS supported South Norfolk’s Spring Clean campaign. Five shedders turned up to litter pick some of Poringland’s recreational areas.

Les, Steve & John
Litter pick completed.

Tombola Drum

The organisers of The Fair on the Yare asked if we could make a Tombola Drum and this is the result. Shedder John Mallott made this…

Tombola Drum

May

Gwynn making mortice joint.
Dave without his hat!
Trench
Trench completed
Les and John working on the trench

April

Work gets underway in the Repair Workshop

 

Fork repair in progress.
Recycling a frame into a Garden Table
Wooden Bench repair
Cutting off old bolts to repair a garden bench.

March 14th

Backfilling the soak away.
Les measuring up.
Carl continues painting.
Les marking out the trench
Trench excavation begins
Digging through cobbled layer.
Reaching a brick layer.

March 11th

Chairman mucks in
Homesick Aussie still digging!
A good brew
Barrow boys
In goes the gravel.

 

February 25th

Cllr John Overton drops by
Men at Work…
More painting
How deep did you say?

February 23rd

Doris Day blows the Marquee away

High winds blow through.
Damage to marquee

February 21st

THE BIG DIG Continues….

 Click on this link to watch.   An Aussie gets homesick and starts digging for home

A Busy Day
How do we get out??

February 18th

The BIG DIG

Following building control permission to install a trench drainage system work has begun to dig the trenches. We opted to dig by hand due to the power cables that lie below!  Dave won the hat competition again! Will it be three in a row for the hat-trick