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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? |
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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? |
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as its been sunny,i reckon the locals have just sat down fer a rest or picnic.:D
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Mill St is near the Tinker and Budget - on the other side of Union Rd. |
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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? |
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You need to go further up Margaret.
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I can see circles near the railway line, west of the coach Rd - is that where Tealeaf is looking?
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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.
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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. |
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1890 map shows a reservoir in the top left corner
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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You can see them better on google hill street oswaldtwistle - Google Maps
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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.
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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. |
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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
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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
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Mr T, Accyweb's answer to Fox Mulder. The truth is out there! :rolleyes:
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