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Originally Posted by Retlaw
There were fish in the twin lodges behind Broad Oak factory, there was also a smaller a smaller pond which we used to catch tiddler in, we called it the breeding pond, there was all sorts of pond wild life in there, but it was dangerous, I once tried to measure the depth of it, it only appeared to be a few inches deep but I couldn't touch the bottom with a 6 ft cane.
When they started to fill the lodges in we went up and collected a gallon of frog spawn, and other creatures and tipped it in the pond in the garden, their off spring come back every year to breed. Don't know where they go during the cold weather, but by the end of March they will be coming back, always from the South, I go out every night around March with a torch looking for them, pick them up and put them in the pond, even found them on our front door step. Usually get between 20 & 30 every year.
Retlaw.
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Yeh I remember there were various lodges around Broad Oak. There was the big one next to the sports field, I think you had to have a licence to fish on it. Then there were the two top ones either side of a road, you had to have licence for them as well, that had a few trout in but got fished out and not replaced! one of them and course fish in the others they got drained eventually in the early 80's I don't know why? But then there was a couple of really small ones between Broad Oak and Manchester Road and I remember caught a couple of big perch in there one year, big for the size of the pond. I remember sometimes the frogs came out when there was still snow on the ground up at Ardenhall lodges that was years back now. You must have a big garden to fit 30 frogs in it