Now you can’t ask for more.
Yesterday Andy Robertson was out on one of his favourite jaunts that took him up to Cornbrook, and along the way he recorded a bridge, a pleasure cruise and some dumped sofas.
Now in the fullness of time all will appear on the blog, but today I have cherry picked, starting with that bridge and moving on to the mystery of the shaft.
Andy added that “here are a few of these knocking about. Could they be ventilation shafts? I read that there are network of tunnels running alongside the docks”.
And I am pretty confident that before this post has travelled far someone will offer up an explanation, with a detailed history, set of maps and old photographs.
They may also be able to suggest an answer to Andy’s other question “what is this flower? It is very widespread especially along the metrolink”.
And that I think it is.
Other than to say I suggest you follow Andy on his trip because before too long the landscape will have been altered forever.
Location; walking to Cornrbrook
Pictures; from the collection of Andy Robertson, 2018
Now in the fullness of time all will appear on the blog, but today I have cherry picked, starting with that bridge and moving on to the mystery of the shaft.
Andy added that “here are a few of these knocking about. Could they be ventilation shafts? I read that there are network of tunnels running alongside the docks”.
And I am pretty confident that before this post has travelled far someone will offer up an explanation, with a detailed history, set of maps and old photographs.
And that I think it is.
Other than to say I suggest you follow Andy on his trip because before too long the landscape will have been altered forever.
Location; walking to Cornrbrook
Pictures; from the collection of Andy Robertson, 2018
The Flower is a buddleia better known as the butter fly bush. They self seed very easily and can be found all over the place where there is untended ground. Might the shafts be methane vents (don't know though)?
ReplyDeleteEasy - Buddleia davidii or Butterfly Bush, that prolific shrub which readily seeds itself on neglected ground, and even in the joints on rooftops and chimneys.
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