Standing on Cake Mills Bridge over the New River Ancholme, close to the border between Brigg and Scawby, we noted this tree stump (centre) with a view to looking through our back files to see if we could discover an earlier picture taken from the same spot.
It didn't prove too difficult. So here are the 'before' and 'after' views.
The tree grew on the very edge of the Broughton parish boundary - literally a stone's throw from Brigg.
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....poor old thing....as a sapling it found its own niche with fine views of the river........but its roots would have eventually destroyed the brick wall....and it was so precariously balanced that strong winds could have brought it down along with a massive section of bank........
Talking about wood and that part of the river.......in 1957 large oak timbers, thought to have originated from the Bronze Age Plankway where found embedded in the river bank along that part of the river.
It was assumed that when the New Ancholme was cut in the C17th, or when it was deepened in the C19th that navvies, not aware of the historic plankway cut through it and discarded the oak beams on the bank......
The Plankway was exposed in the 1880's and in a different section in 1933....but no location details were maintained and its exact whereabouts remains a mystery.....but it's there somewhere. And it predated the 2 Bronze Age (Brigg) boats.....
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