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| Originally Posted by Manchester Will Hey Guy's,
I'm pretty certain I can get permission to dive this old reseviour.
As young school lad (17 years ago) I used to fish it and work at the farm off Castle Brook Lane
It used to feed an old bleach works and it's pretty big, very clean and has loads of fish including some very big Carp and Pike. Depth in the middle is around 14 meters.
It would preferable for me to dive it mid week as its popular fishing spot. I would have to get a day off work.
Here is a goggle map picture. Please let me know if you fancy joining me mid week in early April. Google Maps |
Bloody hell, I used to live quite near there, flats on Baguley Crescent, Rhodes, just on the other side of the roundabout from the Three Arrows, between Middleton Rd and the bottom of Heywood Rd. Back then the then M66 finished at the roundabout, if you wanted to drive to A-u-L, Stockport etc, you had to drive down Victoria Avenue.
If you are looking for other horrible places to dive in that locale, there's Starmount Reservoir in Bury and Thieves Quarry on the moors between Bolton & Darwen; couldn't give you directions though, it was in 1980-81 and my mind is growing feeble(r), or even if they still exist but I think Thieves was near Horwich and was one of two small quarries close to the road which ran along the top of the hill. I've looked for them on Google Earth but without success.
Not much to see in either opf them - I did my three o/w snorkel dives which were a prerequisite to BSAC aqualung training in Thieves - f_cking scarey it was too.