Photo-a-Day (Monday, 20th May, 2024)
The Pipes, the Pipes
The pipes were fitted to allow methane to escape slowly over time.
Totally extinct now after 50 years the area is pleasantly grassed over but as you can see.
I came under attack by a swarm of horse flies.
Photo: Poet (Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70F)
Horse flies - nasty pieces of work. Aged ten, with other children playing cricket at the back of St Joseph's church in Anderton, bitten three times by one of these. Both my legs swelled like balloons. Treated by GP for ten days to get the poison out.
The pipes are a decent bit of simple bio engineering to get the methane out. Interesting photo, Poet.
They have pipes sticking up from the old land filled quarries in Parbold & Appley Bridge.
When the wind is just right you can hear them singing, it's like if you blow over the top.of a bottle.
Some of the daft locals say it's the dead quarry workers not being happy with all that Manchester rubbish being dumped in their.
I don’t quite know this location but now a nice grassy field Poet.
Horse Flies, hate the things and as Gary says, when bitten you really know about it.
sure they have them on the soccer dome pitches we use to call it the GANT when we were kids wigan council land fill we once found a ox off sammy seals think they were latics mascots at time but my be wrong then took them wigan baths bad mistake every kid in wigan had same idea
I thought they were submarines.
I thought they were clothes line poles for campers.
I recall seeing methane gas vent pipes at locations which at one time were refuse sites, and the old tips off Westwood Lane Ince and off Wigan Road at Leigh, and also an area of land near what became Middlebrook at Horwich all had pipes with burners at the top to burn off the methane, although practically invisible during the day the flames could be clearly seen at night. Maybe other refuse dumping sites in other areas had these gas burners too.
I wouldn't have known what those pipes were, but sorry to hear you came under attack from horse-flies. Poet. I was attacked with one round Polly's Pond in Abram many years ago and managed to "bat" it away with my hand, but sadly snapped my gold chain as I did so and lost the gold cross I had had since I was at school! It flew somewhere into the long grass and, despite searching with my family, I never found it. How odd the memories that p-a-d brings!
Cyril,the one on Wigan Rd sounded like a jet engine.
Clever chap who ever found Methane because in its pure form is odourless colourless and tasteless and cannot be seen with the naked eye. Methane gas piped to your house has a chemical mixed with it so you can smell gas in your house