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Thank you all for your help. The top map shows a road called Portway. However it looks closer to the junction than on google maps. Is that road Portway hill with Four ways tavern at the bottom? Or was there another road down the hill which is no longer there? This forum is a gold mine of...

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Hello, I’m working on my family tree and on some old census they are listed as living with many others, at an address listed as Perry’s Lake. No house numbers and google maps doesn’t show anything. I know it was somewhere around Rowley but other than that I don’t know. Any help would be much...

Hi David, Yes, it was a marl hole on Shidas Lane. The engineer and I used to finish our repair quick then he’d say, “cmon, let’s go to the marl hole.” We’d get the key from the security guard and check it out. This was only back in 98/99. He said that they had to go out on it in a steel bottomed...

Hello, The marl pit you mention. I wonder if that’s the same place that I’m thinking of. I was an apprentice at Apollo sports technologies when they closed down (previously Ackles and Pollocks) but we used to pump chemicals over the road to what was called the marl hole. It was a hidden lake...