Upstream Oakley Cross Beck
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Upstream Oakley Cross Beck
Image: © Stanley Howe Taken: 22 May 2012
Viewed from a footbridge over the beck. Through the 1940s this section of the beck ran underground, with the backyards of the houses in the then Oakley Street being paved over it. Children brave enough to walk the length of that Stygean waterway encountered all manner of flotsam and jetsam!
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Image Location
Latitude
54.631138
Longitude
-1.716027