Thursday, 27 September 2012

The route

(Steven, Ali) we started in Robert’s park (Steven, Ali) near graffiti park from that starting point were led under the bridge that connects saltaire to Roberts park where we were told a story  that in distance going down river we told that there used to be a bridge there and in world war II they used to drive tanks over this bridge to test them and in the 1960’s the bridge was taken down for some reason, from there we walked into the middle of Robert’s park sticking to river aire were we stop by this small beach area  opposite the boat house where we were told about how people used to sun bathe, swim and play and stuff but as the years went it wasn’t advisable to be there because of some floaters they told us in the early 21st century from that little beach to the half moon cafe it was once flooded.  From the beach we walked to and past the cricket pavilion to an open bit of land that was owned and bought by Sir Titus Salt in the 1800’s (allotments), when we arrived at this point they said that all this land was actually all water and they built this land on top of it with a particular soil so they were able to build the allotments and other various bits and pieces,  under this land there is a pipeline excrement’s,  they also explained that this land was more rural, it was all opened land, there were boulders and animals were roaming the land. From there we moved to the tree were our tour guide explained that there was a man that lived near this tree who was in WWII, they told us how this man was once captured and tried to escape the prison camp but because he got caught he was nailed to the floor and left to roast in the sun, eventually this man got to get home where he found some sweet puppy love.  From this point they walked us to a Hirst foot bridge that crossed the river were they explained that this river carried many multi coloured excrement’s and that the water was uninhabittle for swimming and bathing for a while anyway.  From Hirst foot bridge  we walked to Hirst boat house were they told us that the boat house didn’t originate there but across the river, they dismantled it and re-build across the river.

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