Incidental Pictures of Romiley, (Part 6)
A journey through time and space with an Aiptek PenCam & an Olympus Digital – featuring pictures left over from the lamp post study and others

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2007/07/14 & 2007/08/15

The trenches in the park 2007/07/14

39: Dig and Run

A bunch of cowboys turned up in the middle of July, dug vast trenches all over the park for new gas pipes and then disappeared. They also dug big holes in the road and abandoned them. Like the job in the centre of the village; the messing about with the pavement and moving the crossing; this looks like another week's work with 2 months' inconvenience.

The park trenches 2007/08/15

A month later, one of the flower beds had been restored but the swarm of barriers remained in the stretch of grass behind the bench, which is normally flooded when it rains.

2007/08/29

The trenches in the park 2007/08/29

40: No Sense of Urgency

The cowboys finally vacated the park, leaving behind some huge scars. But note the large collection of blue barriers still in place on Sandy Lane. The excavations extended through the park to Compstall road, producing a small hole on the park side of the road and a vast excavation on the south side of the road (see picture below). The smaller hole disappeared on August 30th but the vast one shows no signs of going. The invisible excavators have to service this excavation regularly, as the local drunks & vandals keep shoving the barriers into the hole.

The holes on Stockport Road 2007/08/29

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