History Walk

On Monday evening we gathered together in the sunshine at Moira Youth Hostel to meet local historian Dot Morson. She took us on a great walk through the landscape around Conkers and up to Spring Cottage, holding up old photographs of what the landscape had been, so we could compare the before and after. Canals, railways, chimneys, pits and pumps – there are still some clues left to the areas industrial past hidden in the bushes and trees if you know where to look…