Walking back from the meadows, mum said she saw a Kingfisher dive into the river. Her eyesight is better then mine and I didn't see the bird until it flew across the water. The meadows have seen much change over the years. There used to be a paddling pool during the war, lots of people who couldn't afford to get to the coast used to sit there in the sun. Health and safety said it was too dangerouse and now it's gone, grassed over but not forgotten. A lot of today's generation don't know it's there, but we do; those that can remember that is.
There's not a lot of pictures of the Butts water meadows as it seems to concentrate on Harnham water meadows, which is a shame as this is a nice part of the city. I will be taking pictures of the nature trail and putting them on here when I can.
This waterlogged path used to be a racetrack during the 1930's. It still has it's original surface, and there is also one in Victoria Park. During the summer the grass is covered in daisies and dandylions.
This is the river Avon, we used to go swimming here until health and safety put the kybosh on it. You can get herons here and other wildlife. Shame that when an artical about Salisbury is written, it shows only the area around the cathedral and nothing else.
There's more to Salisbury then just the cathedral and Stonehenge. Here in the distance is the old gasworks and fire station, once a thriving community the gasworks will probably close soon because gas is now being pumped in from Southampton. I haven't seen the drum go up for age's.
How long these tree's have been here I don't know, they were here before I was and will be here long after I have gone.
Salisbury Butts allotments, once of the biggest in the city. Parked behind the houses of Devises Road, most people don't know its here but the view is amazing which I will capture at a later date and put on here.
Last but not least this passage goes up behind the houses of Clifton Road. On the left is the old (now disused) saw mill. When my parents moved into the house in 1968, the workers were there then. When I was three I escaped from the back garden and wandered down this path, I remember a car going up Gas Lane past me and gran grabbing hold of me to get me back.
I got such a telling off that day. Now looking back it's hard to imagine now that they are all gone into the past. I think the ghosts are still there.
