Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town

Posted at 23:45:16 on Sun, April 20th 2008 by graham
in: d40x foxhillbank foxhillbanknaturereserve lancashire landscape nature ossy oswaldtwistle photography stream three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 tinkerbrook water

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 111

This is Tinker Brook as it runs through Foxhill Bank nature reserve in Oswaldtwistle.

Once an area of hard concrete lodges, this is now just about the closest most Ossy people will get to nature without heading out of town and into the moors. It used to be made up of disused concrete lodges but a lot of work, followed by a lot of letting nature take its course, has made it rather a pretty place.

We used to come here after school when I was a kid, to talk and laugh and feed the swans. Witness a little bit of my childhood as it drifts on by.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

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