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Re: Lakes from the passed

Karin Nical Mere was drained and then backfilled but not with household refuse

Town: bryn

Re: Lakes from the passed

OK I give up - name the four lakes.

BTW household refuse was also deposited by Council at the rear of Cooksons Farm on Ashton Heath.That would also have been in the 1950s and it was deposited between the Farm and Millingford Brook (where Lincoln Drive is now)

Re: Lakes from the passed

The last photo is near Downall Green I think. Sure I have seen it before.

Town: Stubshaw Cross

Re: Lakes from the passed

Your right lan, It is Downall Green it was better known years ago as "The Dam" it was just round the bend on the right as you came down the hill on Downall Green Road from Bryn, there's houses built there now

By the way I can now think of Five that they filling in lol you've got three still two to go

Town: Ashton in Makerfield

Re: Lakes from the passed

Robin, If you look at the photo I uploaded of the lake at Downall Green I took it lol, well I did take it off another photo that the two people in the photo was showing me about 25 years ago long before you could photocopy them,

As you say it was a man made lake or Dam that was fed by the brook from billinge/Simms Road to run the corn mill that was on the other side of the bridge,

Being as your 74 and lived in the Aston area you must know the five lakes that was filled in as we are almost the some age, do you remember the swans on two of them and they did say their was also on the lake at DG at onetime

Town: Ashton in Makerfield

Re: Lakes from the past.

Dougie.

Sorry, but I have just seen the picture that you refer to, unfortunately, I do not think that the photo with the two people in it is of the Dam. Never in my lifetime was there so much water there, the houses in the picture bear no relation to the houses that I remember, if you compare the area today with the photo, you will see that you could never fit the lake in where the houses are today. If you were coming down the hill in Downall Green Road from Bryn, there was a large house on the inside of the bend on the left hand side that was owned I think by the Crompton family, on the right was the area known as The Dam. On the other side of the Brook was a group of workshop buildings that were, or became Millingford Engineering, which backed onto the houses in Rectory Road, the entrance to the works was between the last terrace of houses and a couple of shops in Rectory Road, before you came to the crossroads by the Village Green. Apologies about my boob with the item on the Star Hotel.

Robin.

Town: Maidstone

Re: Lakes from the past.

Robin, I must know you or your family if you was born at downall Green 1939 I only knew one Robin of that age,he was at school with the twins, do you remember the Blue Bell cottages, as for remembering the lake or Dam most of it had been drained by 1944 and was being filled in,Jack Shaw lived in one of them houses I'll be seeing his son next week will have a word with him about the photo


Town: Ashton in Makerfield

Re: Lakes from the past.

Hi Dougie.
I lived in Booths Brow Road until 1960 when I joined the RAF, I attended Rectory School from 1944 to 49, then went to the Central School until 1954. Remember the Blue Bell Inn next to the School and the fields across the road before they built the housing estate.

Robin.

Town: Maidstone

Re: Lakes from the past.

Hi Robin. Knew that I would know you as your the only Robin I could think of at that age from Downall Green lol, how many by the name of Douglas can you think of lol,the photo of the Lake(IS)the dam at Downall Green look at the photo again as I'll flip it so it's the right way,how you remember seeing the houses I don't know as I can only remember the area after they had been knocked down,

Will be going past this week I'll take a photo's of the Dam corner it was allot bigger than you think,

Re: Lakes from the past.

This is the Dam Lake flipped the right way for you Robin looking to the farm and the mill fields
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This is one I had showing the new bridge you can also see the new wall that would cuts the corner off
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Town: Ashton in Makerfield

Re: Lakes from the past.

I give up - name the four lakes from the past

Re: Lakes from the past.

There's five and I,m not telling you as you maybe living on one of them lol, ask any O.A.P from Ashton as it looks like there's none on here

Town: Ashton in Makerfield

Re: Lakes from the past.

Dougie.

I seem to remember in the late 1950s when I would walk to Garswood Station to get the train to St Helens, there was a lake/pond between Victoria Road and the rail line where people used to fish. Looking at a 'Multymap' image, this has gone and there seems to be a "Strange Road" there now, what was this lake/pond called.

Robin.

Town: Maidstone

Re: Lakes from the past.

Yes that's one of them (A pat on the back Robin lol) it was called the "Tile Sheds" it's grassed over that one and used as a playing field, Put your thinking cap on you should know the other one,------ A walk to school--------

Town: Ashton

Re: Lakes from the past.

Thank you Dougie.

I don't know if you are including 'The Dam', even though I never remember it as a lake.

Robin.

Town: Maidstone

Re: Lakes from the passed

peterp. nicol mere was not backfilled, it was just filled in.


dougie. learn how to spell past.

Town: Bryn, Ashton in Makerfield.

Re: Lakes from the past

JimmyH, there's always one, even my so called mate wouldn't pull me up for that, hope you cross swords with him sometime anyway next time you see him if it's how I think it is, tell him it's Norh Ashton not St-Helens

Town: Ashton

Re: Lakes from the past

So we can put this thread to bed the Water Holes that was filled in,
Jubilee Park,
Skitters Wood,
TheDam at Downall Green,
Tile Sheds at Garswood,
The meddow off Low Bank Road,

Town: Ashton

Re: Lakes from the past

Thanks Dougie.

My mum said a lot of the land where the Mucklow is built was very boggy when it was farmland but no lake there - she said it got so boggy that the cows couldn't be put out to graze.

I know of two houses on the Mucklow with problems with flooding. One has a pump under the floorboards going 24/7 !! It must cost a fortune in eleci !!

Re: Lakes from the past

dougie he said that's the last time he leaves you a pint in the bowling club.

Town: Bryn, Ashton in Makerfield.

Re: Lakes from the past

Jemmy you can always leave one behind the bar for an old B----r like me



What ever you do don't go to with him to--- his social club thats if your going

Town: Ashton

Re: Lakes from the past

I think this is a pic of the water at Nicol Rd.

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Town: Hut