chopped down trees at Wilderswood , Rivington Pike in the background
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4b3af9cc-9607-4e80-913b-786a61a4df87
“In 1513 Richard Urmston was granted land in Horwich by John Barton of Smithills. This is now known as Ormstons Farm. Near the farm is a small bridge, a tramway once ran under this bridge and supplied the John Crankshaw pipeworks lower down the hill with coal and clay mined higher up the slope. The pipeworks was known locally as the “Klondyke” but was demolished in the 1980’s, there is now a housing estate on the site”
http://www.horwich.gov.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=36
“There were coal mines in the area mentioned in the 16th century documents, with many more developing in the 19th century. As well as coal, seams of dry clay were drawn and supplied works making bricks, and sanitary ware. Crankshaw’s pipeworks, whose mine was known as Klondyke, closed down in 1961. A new housing development now stands on the site”
http://www.scratch-n-sniff.org.uk/page18.html
rails from the tramway
looking up the Hill at the tramway
looking down the tramway we went in to Tigers clough next
one of the old dams in Tigers Clough / Shaw’s Clough?
“The clough at that time housed a bleachworks, a drinking establishment
and with a brick and pipe works nearby along with a coal mine just higher
up the hill”
“The bleachworks mentioned above, was known as Knoll Bleachworks
and lay on both sides of the river, where some of the remains can still be
seen.”
http://www.d.lane.btinternet.co.uk/whvol1.pdf
http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Tigers_Clough.html
http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Knoll_Bleach_Works.html
http://justramblingon.co.uk/country-walks/rivington/hunting-tigers-part-2/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington
crossing the river
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Douglas
http://www.bolton.org.uk/rivington.html
http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/collections/local-history/social-history-images/200296?term=postcard&s_tags=&sort_by=Title&item_number=199&b_start:int=0
http://www.brianherald.co.uk/home/58422_moorland-stream.html
http://www.wiganman.co.uk/Content/history/Douglas-1.html
http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Rivington_Pike_Tower.html
https://jakeofwinterhill.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/me-in-the-snow-two-lads-rivingtonbrown-hill-river-douglaswilderswood/
always be careful when crossing rivers like this -River Douglas
old reservoir
top of the reservoir
strange brick square in the river bed -two pipes led from this
one of the pipes
old mine crossing -bridge
in between the crossing point
bridge ?
old iron pipe found upstream did not lead anywhere around 1.5 meters long ?
another mine path
old shaft vent pipe
water tunnel
two videos from inside the water tunnel
out the other side -change of clothing and use of drying technique allowed me to become warm and dry again
Rivington Pike in the background and Pike cottage
strange but this was all woods before but great view of the Rivington pike
Anglie – or the Czech word for England , this tent was exported to england ,
I used to live in the Czech republic in Prague/ Praha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague
http://wikitravel.org/en/Prague
playing our DS
Relum Tent from the Czech republic – Czechoslovakia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic
Me and Evie
my route
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/wilderswood-mine-trails-311218/
Jake of winter hill 