Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town
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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.
