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In the late 60s and early 70s I lived in Eagle Street off New Lane Ossy, which overooked Cockers, it was about 100 yards accross open fields, in fact after a while you actually got used to the smell. The brook that flowed past Cockers carried on down through the Swanney, it was the cleanest river bed in England at the time all the stones were bleached and the brook actually frothed up with white foam blowing everywhere