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Originally Posted by Mancie
Yep.. dirty so and so's.. but there must have been some small fish in there.. had talk of dippers nesting at the tunnel during the 70's when it went under Highams but never saw them myself .
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Highams was low down in town yeh? There may have been sticklebacks somewhere but we used to fish for trout and nothing in there. Though above a certain point at Broad Oak there were trout and that brook that went into Oswaldtwistle from off the moors - there were loads of trout in there. As for dippers, I never saw any in Priestly Clough but there was grey wagtails that used to nest under a bridge near that farm. Dippers used to breed every year without fail under a bridge up behind Broad Oak.