Taking the road to Widnes along the Canal.

 

The bottom part of Sankey Canal is overgrown with these wonderful winter reeds that rustle and sway in the light winds coming along the water..

We didn't walk too far today..the weather is chilly and an hour was quite enough for us.

We wondered what would happen to the areas fenced off behind the large pipes leading from the power station.

Would it be recognized as a wilding area by one of the universities?

Nobody has civilised this for all those years that the station was pumping out energy for our homes.

Moss and ferns clothe the pipes and birds are free to nest and breed.

I'm sure there are foxes, badgers, squirrels and moles aplenty in there.

Everywhere there is water both under the reeds and also along the length of the pipe.

When the power station is being dismantled is the railway going to be used to take all the technical machinery away? I should think so.

Here's the wooden signalman's hut on the rail link to the power station that used to have the coal wagons trundling though the day and night..now surrounded by birch saplings and reeds...it would make a great summerhouse!!

We've lived with these sculptural shapes for so long that to envisage the landscape without them will be strange.

Already the landscape..the reeds...the wild trees are enveloping those towers...

Here  some wild flowers and ferns filling the area behind the green links and spilling out on to the path.