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Started by: Tommy Two Stroke (15202)

I can tell yoo about the land where Rushdene is now, by way of what it was like before they built Rushdene, because back in the early 1980s you could drive almost to the edge of Scotmans Flash at that location, and I used to take me dog down there for a swim.

That land was lumpy, and grassed over with shrubs, but it was solid, and it stood proud of the flash by about 2 - 3ft that land was quite a bit higher up than the Yacht Club.
On that map from the 1960s showing what looks to be piles, and piers going down into the flash, as I recall at that exact location of the piles, the land was even higher up, and you sort of drove around to the side of where those pilings were, get to the shore of the flash, the pilings were buried under a mound of grassed over earth, and the shore of the flash seemed to be made of shale, possibly red shale which had weathered or watered into a grey colour.

So looking at that map it seems obvious to me that the subsidence would have been spreading towards Poolstock Lane and the railway line at that location, and possibly making the farmhouse dangerous, so the farmhouse was demolished, and the ground was reinforced with pilings, and the land filled in and raised up, to protect the railway embankment from subsidence, yoo can tell that by the way the pilings are driven almost into the base of the railway embankment, and that they were there to protect the railway line, there also pilings along the railway line embankment (now new road) at the side of the flash

Replied: 7th Apr 2021 at 20:16

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