Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 15th August, 2023)

Surely even if you owned the land you would have to have planning some sort of planning permission?
It is definately '' a blot on the landscape '' & needs to be removed

For those who are not too sure how to identify canal boats, the boat to the right is a barge and the others are narrow boats.
I know many do get it wrong.
Good photo Rev.

It always looks a nice peaceful place to live apart from the dumped container spoiling the scene. I imagine there will be complaints.

Apart from the shipping container, that's actually a very nice scene. I have only been to Crooke once, many years ago with a friend, and remember being surprised at such a hidden gem.

My sister lived in the house were the black car is parked until she died last year, plan was to scatter her ashes on the green, if we had done she might be under the container now.
A few weeks ago the container was in Shevington Memorial park, but Ive been told that the Crook Hall pub landlady bought it and moved it to Crook.

Re planning permission..I have just read that a shipping container is classed as a non permanent structure so does not normally require planning permission except in certain circumstances...but surely where this one is sited should be looked into ?

if id only ever been to a local place once I would be making shure to go again as soon has possible.

The canal looks to be a very brown or a muddied colour, I remember it to be a grey/silvery looking colour from nearby, but the water was always of good clarity with the bottom able to be seen down from the banking, but then it's over twenty years since I last went to Crooke, and John Bull, I've no plans for going back there anytime soon.

I can think of another blot on the landscape that needs to be removed. It can be found at the top of Millgate.

Unfortunately time passes and what was a pleasant grass area of the village has now been sold. The shipping container probably has building equipment inside. The container had to be put on the private land otherwise some one from the village could then raise an objection to being put elsewhere. I am sure relevant plans have been put in for any future building projects on this site.

Some places are timeless ,
as if the world ignores ,
left to its own devices ,
breezes lift away ,
the landing of modern spores .
Not that you are not welcome ,
its just that we like to be ,
yours is a moving water ,
mine is a choice , called me ..
A kite will seek what it’s meant for ,
and reach for the clouds up above ,
but a grandfather clock is no different ,
as it ticks our time with such love ,
Each to their own is the question ,
do we race with the changes we face ,
or watch the bats in the night time ,
as they melt within our own moments of space ..

Seems the brownish water colour could be down to a water fern plant: https://www.lep.co.uk/health/this-is-why-a-stretch-of-canal-has-turned-a-strange-brown-colour-in-preston-73380

Another theory by CRT is that if a lot of boats have been passing along, then they could have been churning up any sediment on the bottom of the canal.

It's more noticeable on the narrow canals, which were dug shallower in the first place than on the broad, barge canals, but you can see the mud being churned up by each turn of the propellor as a boat moves through the water. Since very little dredging is done, the bottom of a canal gets nearer the top all the time - so it is very rarely clear. The only area I've passed through over the years where you can clearly see to the bottom is on the Bridgewater Canal on the approach to Patricroft - after you leave the section around Worsley which is nearly orange from iron-contaminated water running from old mine workings.

That parcel of land, the one with the container on, was up for sale a few months back. It might have been on Pugh’s auction.
Possibly, the container belongs to the buyer, placed there ready to start development work in the near future.