Showing posts with label Chorlton Brook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chorlton Brook. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 June 2026

A lost bridge across the Brook

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Now I think it is time for a walk across the meadows in search of Mosley Bridge . It was a small bridge over the Brook put up by Charl...
Thursday, 18 June 2026

Of floods and weirs and peaceful places, on the edge of Turn Moss

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The weir in 1915 I really don’t do enough pictures on the blog and rarely do those then and now sort of stories .  So here with the he...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Walking the northern boundary of Rent Meadow in the summer of 1848 …………

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Now , it is always fascinating to take a spot you know well, and try and think it back to a time before now. Looking out towards Chorlt...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

The lost woods of Chorlton …… and a mystery concerning Mrs Lydia Brown and John Holland

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We are looking out on John Holland’s Wood which stretched west along Chorlton Brook towards the Bowling Green Inn. John Holland's Wood, ...
Saturday, 22 February 2025

Chorlton Brook and the Cliffs at Holland Wood in 1847 ... part two

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Holland Wood, by the Cliffs along Chorlton Brook, circa 1907 We are in Holland Wood, sometime at the beginning of the 20th cent...
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Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Chorlton Brook

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It winds its way across Chorlton from the border with Withington, having traversed the city, taking on different names in that journey, a...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

Following the smelly Gorton Brook into Chorlton ………… and solving a puzzle

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The year is 1926 and I thought we were standing just a little north east of Hough End Playing Fields, somewhere close to what is now Hough ...
Tuesday, 21 January 2020

The Kickety Brook, Stretford, once a vital part of our flood defences

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I first walked the Kickety Brook with my old botanist friend, David Bishop. It doesn’t look much but it was vital in its day for prot...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Waking up to the day Chorlton was flooded .............. the Brook on an August morning

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Now I know I shouldn’t have been surprised at seeing pictures of the Brook overflowing its banks earlier last month. They were posted o...