Just as an add-on I have been looking at a 1900 map of Thatto Heath and the dam along with the stream are on this map so it had been there for many years.
There is a Welsh site that gives you the map of the whole of Wales that you can open it to the far side of Manchester, so obviously covers the ...

I remember when I used to go to Eddy Camp in the late 1960's, on the Crossley Road side of Whittle Street behind the houses used to run a brook which was fed by overflow water from Thatto Heath dam ( the dam was fed by water from Alexandra Colliery which when the dam was full the overflow ran at the ...

Hi Dave, glad that I managed to get my registration in before the problems. I'm no tech person and would have had problems being able to re-join as firstly - and I don't believe that I am the only one - I refuse to use Facebook due to problems a relation had with Facebook which could have affected ...

I have to be honest and say that I have not been onto the site, for many reasons, this past 12 months and did not know that the original site had ceased to be online. I am unaware of the reason the original site closed as there was no information sent out to say what was happening so it was a bit of ...