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Old 22-07-2004, 19:35   #17
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Re: In search of an old viaduct

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
I spent many a happy hour playing around Five Arches in the 50's/early 60's, but I haven't been up there for knocking on forty years. Is my imagination playing tricks on me or was there a waterfall with a little cottage and bridge next to it somewhere up there? And was there an old stone quarry on the Fern Gore side of the clough? I seem to remember we called it Black Rock and it formed the backdrop to many a game of "cowies" and indians!
Yes I remember Black Rock we love the name and often tried to climb it, until they dumped a load of sandstone and clay there in the late 60s, do you remember the little hill opposite with the track at the side leading down to the stables.
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