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Tealeaf 24-04-2009 14:46

Mill St, Ossy - Virtual Earth
 
The other day,I checked out the link on the Vitual Earth thread and took an airborn guided tour around Hyndburn. it's pretty much as you would expect, with one exception which has me baffled. So for any of you idlers out there who have nothing better to do, get on the Vitual Earth thread, locate Ossy and then locate the field which lies North of Mill street (that is the street just to the west of Foxhill bank and which can be seen from Blackburn Road on your left going towards Blackburn). You will need the birds eye view option.

Does anyone have any ideas what those markings on the ground are? Is it Garinda, with midnight escapades playing at making crop circles? Are they prehistoric round houses, the latest 'Des-Res' style for the good people of Ossy? What are they? I don't know, do you?

Gayle 24-04-2009 15:00

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You had me a bit confused with Mill St but I think I've found the field you mean.

Web browser and Live Maps are incompatible

Very peculiar.

So come on Garinda, what you been up to?

Tealeaf 24-04-2009 15:09

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Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 707546)
You had me a bit confused with Mill St but I think I've found the field you mean.

Web browser and Live Maps are incompatible

Very peculiar.

So come on Garinda, what you been up to?

I've just realised....it should be Hill Street...I think....Mill St is off Union Road, isn't it?:o

cashman 24-04-2009 15:10

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as its been sunny,i reckon the locals have just sat down fer a rest or picnic.:D

Gayle 24-04-2009 15:13

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 707550)
I've just realised....it should be Hill Street...I think....Mill St is off Union Road, isn't it?:o

Yes, Hill St - but it isn't shown on the map anyway so if i'd have been searching for it wouldn't have found it. Well, it is shown on the map but not labelled on the map if you know what I mean.

Mill St is near the Tinker and Budget - on the other side of Union Rd.

MargaretR 24-04-2009 15:13

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I can't see anything unusual....:confused:
There are some shafts of sunlight from between trees, and some low growing shrubs ... could they be what you are seeing?

Gayle 24-04-2009 15:14

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You need to go further up Margaret.

MargaretR 24-04-2009 15:21

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I can see circles near the railway line, west of the coach Rd - is that where Tealeaf is looking?

Tealeaf 24-04-2009 15:24

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 707560)
I can see circles near the railway line, west of the coach Rd - is that where Tealeaf is looking?

You're plugged in today, Margaret...must be because it's a friday. The question is.....what are those circles?

Gayle 24-04-2009 15:24

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Yes, it's the big field to the north of Hill St - not Mill St. See if the link on my post works.

MargaretR 24-04-2009 15:28

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The truth is out there :D
I will look for old maps on Mario to see if I can find that area in use at some time.

MargaretR 24-04-2009 15:43

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1 Attachment(s)
1890 map shows a reservoir in the top left corner

MargaretR 24-04-2009 15:53

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It is possible to ask for info here

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corpora...=e#anchor91812
but you may need to pay a fee

MargaretR 24-04-2009 16:00

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I might be the site of a shanty town for the navvies who dug the canal.
The provision of the small water storage reservoir may indicate that
just surmising
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/educat...et-navvies.pdf
They would camp in
cramped temporary huts or tents near the canal

Tealeaf 24-04-2009 16:07

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 707569)
1890 map shows a reservoir in the top left corner

The reservoir outline can still be seen (it's full of trees). but that doesn't explain the circles.

MargaretR 24-04-2009 16:09

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 707580)
The reservoir outline can still be seen (it's full of trees). but that doesn't explain the circles.

See my last post amended (posted while you composed yours)

Tealeaf 24-04-2009 16:13

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 707582)
See my last post amended (posted while you composed yours)

Nah....a tent would not leave a permanent 'print' and shanty town buildings would be square/rectangular.

MargaretR 24-04-2009 16:15

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 707585)
Nah....a tent would not leave a permanent 'print' and shanty town buildings would be square/rectangular.

They would be producing human waste:rolleyes: which would make the grass grow greener

MargaretR 24-04-2009 17:10

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I have been websearching again and found that navvies built 'sod huts'
Towards an archaeology of navvy huts and settlements of the industrial revolution | Antiquity | Find Articles at BNET

Little is known in detail about the construction, use and frequency of the sod hut. It seems to have been used when no other accomodation was available or where the individual navvy was particularly independent (Coleman 1981: 80-85; Sullivan 1983: 73-80). It was a small, self-built dwelling constructed of locally available materials such as turf, timber and tarpaulin.

and this amusing account of how they lived
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/...ullivan/4.html

Neil 24-04-2009 17:26

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You can see them better on google hill street oswaldtwistle - Google Maps

walker 24-04-2009 18:48

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I think the circles were made by horses on tethers, as I know they used to be tethered in this field. The brown patches are were they have eaten the grass. Hope this helps.

tosh 24-04-2009 18:53

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 707580)
The reservoir outline can still be seen (it's full of trees). but that doesn't explain the circles.

get the time team out on the job.

Tealeaf 24-04-2009 19:04

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Originally Posted by walker (Post 707700)
I think the circles were made by horses on tethers, as I know they used to be tethered in this field. The brown patches are were they have eaten the grass. Hope this helps.

That was one of the possibilities I considered. There are two more:

1) The reservoir up the corner suggests that this field may have been used for the bleaching process of woven cotton. However, I don't know enough about late 18th/early 19th century printing/bleaching technology.

2) I recall that about 30 years ago, this was a footy field used by Ossy Rovers. As we all know, people from Ossy know neither whether they are coming or going, so I suspect the team merely ran around in circles, which fully explains the patterns.

K.S.H 24-04-2009 19:08

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Theres a lot more in the field to the right as well if you look, but they are green, comparing them to the size of the cars at West End Auto's yard they must be about 30-40 feet in diameter, tethered horse does seem a good guess

K.S.H 24-04-2009 19:10

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 707713)
I recall that about 30 years ago, this was a footy field used by Ossy Rovers.

Wasn't it known as twenty steps or something like that, "think" it got its name from the number of steps up the side of the railway bridge

Bagpuss 24-04-2009 21:03

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Originally Posted by K.S.H (Post 707725)
Wasn't it known as twenty steps or something like that, "think" it got its name from the number of steps up the side of the railway bridge

Correct KSH, I won my first football medal playing there for the Ossy Nippers.

spearthrower 27-04-2009 13:26

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There have been ponies tethered in this field the marks are probably left by the pony as it circled around feeding at the tethers limit

Sparkologist 27-04-2009 14:28

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Mr T, Accyweb's answer to Fox Mulder. The truth is out there! :rolleyes:


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