Wayoh overflow, 1957
At first glance it looks as though it may be a road or even a field but you are looking at the overflow from the Wayoh reservoir pictured in 1957.
Water ran down the man-made ‘escape route’ and fed into Bradshaw Brook.
The chimneys you can see belonged to the Black Rock works at Turton Bottoms. Originally the site of a corn mill, it later became a spinning mill before housing a bleaching and dyeing operation.
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