Saturday 30 July 2011

Quecha Tent sleep over

me and Evie watching a film-Sammie's adventures about a turtle 
enjoy the film.

Note from dad : Lavender to put the bugs off
http://www.gardenerspath.com/articles/herbalist/bugs_poisonivy.html
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf115181.tip.html

Note from Dad the Quechua tent T6.2
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/t6-2-35289237/

 camp fire we collected wood  for the fire - my mum cooked me a banana with chocolate in it ! on the fire





me asleep 

Wilderswood , Horwich family walk

Leo exploring on my dads back
mine adit - this is blocked after a few feet very damp and wet and full of mud !
can you see the pike ? we are going to look at the dragonflys on the pond
walking towards Ormstons farm
http://www.ss-osands.org.uk/ssosands/beep/horwich/timeline2.htm
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4b3af9cc-9607-4e80-913b-786a61a4df87

old mine workings

 one of the horses -sign says do not feed
 Leo with his hat on this walk he kept on taking it off

 Leo on the walk - i picked his hat up several times
me and Evie stroking a horse

the mast and the old tramway
mine adit - this is dry but blocked after a few feet - goes towards cabin pit but does not link up ;)
this area has been felled
Evie hiding ;)

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/wilderswood


my first blog a year ago 
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2010/07/wilderswood-mines-and-tunnels.html


http://justramblingon.co.uk/country-walks/rivington/to-the-wilderswood/
http://prestonwalkies.blogspot.com/2007/04/wilderswood-and-winter-hill.html
http://www.about-horwich.co.uk/horwich/Wilderswood_Mill.html
http://justramblingon.co.uk/diary/diary-2011-week-18/


route taken
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/wilderswood-horwich-family-walk-312610/


Tuesday 26 July 2011

Wilderswood to Rivington pike old mine ,water tunnel 4 miles

me in the wood
raspberries !

jumping over a fallen tree
down to the stream
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BThl7R0y9UY/TGmH4iyKI2I/AAAAAAAAAGA/XrnP0XwcWCg/s1600/IMG00122.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BThl7R0y9UY/TRY0u_IGbfI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/VNVC5IUV7vE/s1600/IMG02856.jpg

main collery shaft no 1 wilderswood the shaft (capped) is in front of this

http://www.heatherandhillforts.co.uk/index.php/en/about/heather/71-bilberry


can you see the tramway ?
one of the horses
we will have to take a look at this !
Brown Hill
the pike

A fast beetle
behind the pike the sun was setting

I could see Blackpool tower from here
old pipe feeding the water tank

T&G Higson Halliwell (part of Bolton)
found in the middle of the moors  part of the water tank - Lord leverhulme's Rivington's garden -

old leval



can you see the old mine
this was narrow -it was wet dark and full of spiders !

note from Dad This is narrow and even jake had to crouch and shuffle along - it was worse for me
looking out for spiders !

video's from the water tunnel

http://www.heatherandhillforts.co.uk/index.php/en/about/heather/71-bilberry
Bilberries 
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Pigeon%20Tower



Pigeon tower 
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/97653


http://www.rivingtonhallbarn.co.uk/localarea/


http://www.chorley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1202


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington


http://www.bolton.org.uk/terraced.html


http://www.angelfire.com/in/rivington/leverpark.html


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=125-zhc&cid=1#1 details of the plans held for Roynton Cottage,

Link to the person who designed the  Lever park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hayton_Mawson

http://www.leverpark.co.uk/ friends of Lever park

maps of rivington
http://rivington-lancashire.com/MapsP2.html




Lower Rivington reservoir

just below brown hill
on our way back we gave directions to some people who were looking for the pike !

The pike at sunset brown hill has the trees on it to the left
the sunset had a orange glow to it - making me look Orange !

see !