Despite the efforts of the landowner, this bit of the river is going to turn into an oxbow lake, and no amount of corrugated metal and rubble is going to stop it! One of the few things I remember from school.
The old waterwheel that powered the ragmill, that produced the raw material for the papermill where my grandad and great grandad worked. It finally closed in the 1960’s. The building behind was a brewery, now a beautiful house, very sensitively restored and owned by a very well known actor, who’s frequently seen on television.