Chris A Reedy
Sunday Sunrise @ Crime Lake
Taken just after sunrise yesterday at Daisy Nook Country Park.
The forecast and initial light / clouds just before 06:00 promised a possible fantastic sunrise, yet again it didn't deliver as promised, but none the less good to be out and about.
.The name Daisy Nook came from a book by Benjamin Brierley titled 'A day out' or 'A Summer Ramble'. Brierley asked his friend Charles Potter, an Oldham Artist, to draw an imaginary place called Daisy Nook. Potter came to nearby Waterhouses to complete his drawing - and from then on the area was known as Daisy Nook.'.
Most of Daisy Nook now belongs to the National Trust after it was left to them by the late James Lublam, J.P. 'in order that the fields and woods be kept as a pleasure area'.
The park is maintained by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council.
Crime Lake is halfway between Woodhouses and the Visitors' Centre and forms part of the Country Park.
It resulted from canal works at the time of construction in 1794 . As built, the canal severed the course of a brook and a culvert was made below the canal to accommodate this.
A landslip blocked this and the waters were impounded on the offside of the canal. The new lake and canal became one and the lake was officially known as Crime Bank Reservoir, but it is far better known by its later name of Crime Lake.
The name 'Crime' may have come from a local word for "meadow" or a local name for a particular meadow, rather than anything untoward.
Sunday Sunrise @ Crime Lake
Taken just after sunrise yesterday at Daisy Nook Country Park.
The forecast and initial light / clouds just before 06:00 promised a possible fantastic sunrise, yet again it didn't deliver as promised, but none the less good to be out and about.
.The name Daisy Nook came from a book by Benjamin Brierley titled 'A day out' or 'A Summer Ramble'. Brierley asked his friend Charles Potter, an Oldham Artist, to draw an imaginary place called Daisy Nook. Potter came to nearby Waterhouses to complete his drawing - and from then on the area was known as Daisy Nook.'.
Most of Daisy Nook now belongs to the National Trust after it was left to them by the late James Lublam, J.P. 'in order that the fields and woods be kept as a pleasure area'.
The park is maintained by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council.
Crime Lake is halfway between Woodhouses and the Visitors' Centre and forms part of the Country Park.
It resulted from canal works at the time of construction in 1794 . As built, the canal severed the course of a brook and a culvert was made below the canal to accommodate this.
A landslip blocked this and the waters were impounded on the offside of the canal. The new lake and canal became one and the lake was officially known as Crime Bank Reservoir, but it is far better known by its later name of Crime Lake.
The name 'Crime' may have come from a local word for "meadow" or a local name for a particular meadow, rather than anything untoward.