Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 11th October, 2012)

Harry, to someone like me, who doesn`t know where this dam is, your info doesn`t help. I take it, from the Yellow Brook you mention, that it`s the river Douglas which is dammed? How far from Central Park is this wooden bridge on bottom right photo?

Well it looks like just a lot of water to me!!! And yes it would be better with a biit more info as I don't know where it is either. For some godforsaken reason Adelaide has had it's fair share of rain this winter and we have had a lot of pictures like these in our newspapers!!! Cheers

Sorry I should have put more info I wrongly assumed that people would have seen my earlier photos of the dam under construction. 25/3/2010 8/1/2011 20/10/2011. Yes Ernest it is the River Douglas, the dam is in the valley at the bottom of Coppull Lane off Wigan Lane on one side and the bottom end of Moore Street on the other side I think it's called Mulligans Brew?

Somebody should have made a video of these high waters it would have show it better than 4 stills.

Well illustrated.

There is a video on you tube Mick just type in Douglas river,good selection Harry.

Well I'm in Africa and I Know exactly where these where taken,I remember the area well.Nice photos Harry.

We knew it as Mollonies Brow.
Coming down from Bottling Wood Estate in Bradshaw Street.

Thanks for the correction John D that's why I put a question mark.

As children when we went to play over there in the whet boggy ground .I am pretty sure it was called Dick Leathers.

The dam is designed to hold up to 370,000 cubic metres of water on the Haigh side of the construction. It looks a simple piece of kit, but actually its quite a specialised piece of Hydraulic Engineering. It's one of the biggest Hydrabrake Systems in the country. "A" level physics would be an advantage here. Another big one is on the River Cart near Glasgow.

Thanks Harry, I`ve looked at your previous photo`s and also Mick`s video (including his bike!) on :-
http://youtu.be/e_aagzAODYk
Mick re your comment at 10:16, what about you making it?
Harry, you mention a statue on photo 20/10/2010, has this been done?

Correction to the last sentence in comment at 20:49 - photo is on 20/10/2011.

Just been on Google Earth and this flood sheme is on, so can clearly see where it is.

Ron we knew part of the area as the whiteheads, also to the right of the bottom left photo was known as the little jungle. Ernest if you look at the top right corner of the top right photo you can see the plinth where the statue is going to be, or so I was told. also regarding your first comment Central Park, now Tesco, is about a mile from the little bridge.

Thanks all for your comments. H.

I used to play over there in the 1950's and 60's and the Haigh side of the dam was known as "The Scrogs".