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Douglas Valley from top of the steps, 1962/3
Douglas Valley from top of the steps, 1962/3
Photo: Philip Harrison
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Item #: 21351
This is a photo taken on a frosty Christmas morning 1962/3 overlooking Douglas Valley towards the Bellingham Tennis Club on Wigan Lane. Quite a different scene nowadays. Then there were wide open spaces near the river (now covered in trees) and the path towards the woods was then quite visible. The man on the photo is John Harrison, my dad.
We lived at No. 3 Rosemary Crescent.

Comment by: Philip Harrison on 27th September 2012 at 16:46

I went down to see the dam at the bottom of Coppull Lane (26 Sept. 2012)and walked below this spot. The whole area is now flooded (due to recent heavy rain) right back to the small bridge over the Yellow Brook in the woods. I've never seen this area flooded before, and there is no sign of the River Douglas.

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