Yep ……… this is nothing more than a water story, occasioned by the recent heavy rain.
One of Andy Robertson’s favourite haunts is Pomona, and like so many of us, he is drawn to water.
And so, for no reason other than that I too like canals and water, here are two of those then and now pictures, although I grant you, they are only separated by a few months.
Andy was there yesterday, sent over the images adding “I am sure the canal in Pomona land doesn't always look as brown as it did today”, which led us to speculate on the impact of the amount of rain we have experienced.
That said I bet a full century ago, that same canal would have offered up a full range of colours, depending on what was being discharged directly into it from the many warehouses and factories which lined its banks.
Leaving me just to reflect that "the water ain't what it oughta".*
Location; Pomona
Pictures; the colour of canal water, 2019, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*With a nod and smile to a classic Heineken advert, 1985, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86CZQGdxyMs
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| July 2019 |
And so, for no reason other than that I too like canals and water, here are two of those then and now pictures, although I grant you, they are only separated by a few months.
Andy was there yesterday, sent over the images adding “I am sure the canal in Pomona land doesn't always look as brown as it did today”, which led us to speculate on the impact of the amount of rain we have experienced.
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| April, 2019 |
Leaving me just to reflect that "the water ain't what it oughta".*
Location; Pomona
Pictures; the colour of canal water, 2019, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*With a nod and smile to a classic Heineken advert, 1985, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86CZQGdxyMs
The colour of the water in the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield and Pomona is influenced by the River Medlock - which flows through the Castlefield Basin, and exits into the River Irwell via a sluice/overflow at Potato Wharf
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