Mill St, Ossy - Virtual Earth

Tealeaf

Tealeaf

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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?
 
Tealeaf said:
I've just realised....it should be Hill Street...I think....Mill St is off Union Road, isn't it?:o
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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.
 
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?
 
I can see circles near the railway line, west of the coach Rd - is that where Tealeaf is looking?
 
Yes, it's the big field to the north of Hill St - not Mill St. See if the link on my post works.
 
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.
 
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/work/sullivan/4.html
 
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