Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 29th June, 2023)

Peace and tranquillity the babble of a brook

Mini waterfalls from sunken/ worn out steps…

Nature at its best. You wouldn't think this water flow is running with this dry weather spell.
Cheers Dennis.

What a lovely picture. I can almost feel the shady coolness in the air and hear the water. Beautiful.

When I was young I remember walking with my aunt and uncle down a lane in Wigan and my uncle pointed out that one of the buildings was going to be used for bottling Wigan water, I think the company who were starting the business sold pharmacie products.
Later on I remember we walked past this little waterfall and he told me that this is the image that will be used on the bottles.

Absolutely beautiful. It's calming just looking at it. Thanks Dennis. I'm surprise too Gary that the hot weather hasn't dried it up. Cenarth Falls, which is near where I live, is down to a trickle, whereas normally the water is powerful and impressive.

The flow of the water will sound lovely on a very hot day.

Certainly a very attractive cascade but looks man made so was it constructed , as has been mentioned, for bottling water ?

According to google maps its called Great Haigh Sough something I have never heard of

Anyone remember when that water running along there was 'yellow' ?

Love it!

Sir Bob, it was only yellow from the outlet of the Great Haigh Sough which used to be further down the stream than this.
A few years ago the polluted water from the Sough was diverted to settling ponds higher up in Aspull.
In the settling ponds the pollution settles to the bottom and the clear water at the top runs off to join the stream that comes from the stream behind the Crown Hotel in New Springs. From there it runs down to a culvert under what was the Whelley loop railway line and comes out at the top of this cascade, from the bottom of this it joins what was the yellow Brook that runs into the River Douglas.

It is man made, the water has been filtered through reed beds further up stream to take the yellow ochre out of it, so the Yellow Brook isn't yellow any more. The Great Haigh Sough was a drain used to remove water from the coal mines at Haigh.

aren't they fish steps put there by the council for fish to jump up?