Cowlyshaws Pond

[cherry t 10]

does anybody remember cowlyshaws pond, somewhere on the parkway before it was built, or just being built.

[chrispag 10]

remember going for tsddys and frogs

[cherry t 10]

Do you know who cowlishaw was or is?

[welder1 11]

think he was farmer who owned the land

[john65 10]

I remember Cowlishaws pond very well we used to catch sticklebacks down there. There was a big quarry next to it and we used to swim in it. Old man Cowlishaw was a cow farmer and he used to deliver his milk in a little van registration number 123 OXO funny how these little things stick in your mind. Also in the same place was the nunnery pit hills and we used to pick coal from the slag heap round the side, the cops used to come every now and then and chase us off. Happy days ???????

[welder1 11]

do you remember the brick kilns and the old pit,we used to play in?

[coyleys 10]

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp92/coyleys/nunnerypit2.jpg

[MARY POPPINS 10]

I remember Cowlishaws pond we used to catch tadpoles and stickle backs, and we had to go over stepping bridge to get to it, I always though it was a right adventure going there, and my mum always used to tell me I couldn't go

Seem to remember a girl getting killed there near some railway sleepers anybody else remember that

[whiteley 10]

I remember Cowlishaws pond we used to catch tadpoles and stickle backs, and we had to go over stepping bridge to get to it, I always though it was a right adventure going there, and my mum always used to tell me I couldn't go

Seem to remember a girl getting killed there near some railway sleepers anybody else remember that

 

Yes I remember the girl getting killed, think she lived near Woodbourn Road. We used to go over the bridge to Cowlishaws pond, by brother was always swimming in it even though he had been told not to.

[cherry t 10]

Which bridge was that? my brother always went on about this place and i could never go with him.

[catkins 10]

cowlieshaws pond off manor lane just past steads down the lane to cowlishaws farm pond on the right but go left follow the track which took you to the brickworks darnall and kettlebridge loads of allottments around there cheers catkins

[cherry t 10]

Thanks for the info,i thought the place was off manor lane towards prince,my mum and dad worked at steads near the abattoir.