[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by davemac

Today in Pictures, a taxi job to the Pals Centre kept me local, so a full circle around Platts Lodge was all I could manage.
10. The sluice gates(if thats the right word) that once used to divert Woodnook Water into Platts lodge, not been used in donkeys years.

Why does every body call it Platts Lodge, that lodge was there long before Platts were even heard of, it was used by all the mills on the factory bottom. Bulloughs was connected to it at on time for fire fighting purposes. Woodnook water bypassed the lodge via that big steel pipe a lot of people have been on about up Priestly Clough, it was installed because the effluent from the mills up Baxenden were contaminating the boilers of the mills on Victoria Street, (Factory Bottom). Those red painted steel piles were for the Railway to Bury built circa 1850.