Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 8th February, 2024)

Good pic Colin, I like the Dougie In full flow I'm afraid to say there are mindless yobs willing to destroy our waterways with trollies and other objects, remember bridge well when central park was there you always got a good few spectators on that bridge, good old days.

Perhaps they were trying to save Billy.

Anybody who's handy with a chainsaw could make something spectacular out of those two tree stumps.

Asda at Newtown is the same, shopping trolleys thrown in the river there. Infact, those trolley are everywhere, you see them dumped at the side of the road too.
The trolleys must cost a tidy sum.

Nice picture of the Dougie, but WHY do people feel the need to dump supermarket trolleys and old mattresses, bikes and prams in rivers and canals?

Despite the changes all around Ol’man River Douglas still keeps rolling …Sunday afternoons in the Summer months would see droves of people walking along there to the Plantations and Haigh Hall. It doesn’t look tempting enough to me now……

It makes me feel cold just looking at that photo.

They just put losing the cost of trolleys on your food bill. Even when people have put a £1 in the trolley to use them, they still go missing.

It used to be a pleasant walk up the valley only minutes from the town centre, now it can be scary at times. You wouldn’t want a daughter walking up there on her own, something that was entirely possible not that many years ago.
When I was a kid we used to go to the A.B.C. Minors at the Ritz on a Saturday morning and then walk it back home via the River and through the Plantations. How many parents would want their kids doing that now?

Linma, it was a bright but cold and miserable day, come spring most of the picture will be shrouded in leaves and the two bridges would hardly be visible.
Why supermarkets, rivers, canals and trolleys seem to go hand in hand is one of life's mysteries to me!

"is there owt i' theer"?

"aye, gudgeon"!

Memories, memories, used to walk this path every morning on my way to work.

Bruce , there’s Mink as well lad! They quite like a fish supper .

I walk home that way and it always makes me sad when I see any kind of rubbish dumped into the river.
I've witness the locals, boys and girls joy riding on trolleys along the river bank then dumping them into the river.
I wish the parents of the offenders would explain to there children that if it keeps going on Tesco will have to start using coin operated trolleys like Asda have.

There is a magnet like contraption in the ground located near to the entrances/exits that locks up another contraption on the trolley wheels, this supposedly stops trolleys from being pushed beyond these points, however it can't stop folks from carrying the trolleys over and beyond those points, if that is their intention to do so.

It isn't all that long ago that a massive cleanup of litter and fly tipped rubbish in that area was carried out by local councillors and a gang of volunteers, and they did recover many trollies and old bikes from out of the river, obviously Tesco wouldn't have wanted them back with being in there, so they and the bikes went for scrap.

Bruce the only thing in there are Richards. It's very sad that in this day and age United Utilities still find the need to allow great amounts of untreated sewage to enter our waterways, and it's the same company that receives the complaints of sewage in waterways, so they won't be doing any investigations into complaints anytime soon or even prosecuting themselves seeing that the company is owned by China - which to me is very wrong.

Sometimes, I find it difficult to understand the way some councils work. Regarding the River Douglas, flooding has been an issue for a long time. There was, at great expense, a great deal of work carried out at the bottom of Coppull Lane to try and overcome some of the flooding issues. Yet, here we can clearly see the rooted remains of large trees, vegetation, sand banks and, probably, stones and household waste. Why?
The two trees have been cut and it looks like this was done by using a chainsaw. But, why were they not fully removed?
These obstacles are only going to slow down the flow of water and, therefore, cause the water to rise which is flowing towards these obstacles.
Colin, I have often seen shopping trolleys in the River Douglas. Unfortunately, this issue of trolleys being thrown in to the river is one which is probably impossible to solve, unless the mentality of certain people changes for the better.
By the way, nice photo and thanks for uploading it.

Last week I saw a Tesco trolley in Atherton cemetery.

The problem here is that the river bed rises higher on the Standish and Shevington side of Wigan than it is behind the Stadium. That's why the area around where the stadium sits is always sodden and it's due to the Pemberton fault. The answer is, the river bed needs to be cleared from behind the stadium to the M6 flyover. That will let the water flow.

Ive just been having a look on YouTube for videos of the River Douglas in flood and I must say people have made some excellent films.

Here is a link to one of the Douglas flowing over the dam a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/41oSLkb7dmY?si=CJAdqSRIrk-2ti7j

Pw, I've heard of cheap funerals, but taking your nearest and dearest for their last long ride in a Tesco trolley is pushing it a bit isn't it?

I had a vision of ‘pall bearers’ pushing a trolley along with a pound coin in the slot - for that price no need to take it back…it’s a lot cheaper than a hearse. I wish I hadn’t already paid for my last ride to Gidlow. Where’s the nearest supermarket? I might get a reduction…
In the olden days a horse and cart sufficed...it certainly wouldn’t bother me anyroad!