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Post by ago on Sept 5, 2015 10:46:20 GMT
hello all, been a while, here is a photo of Joey the swan, this can be found at smithy lane Acton Wrexham, now there use to be a pond on this corner not that I can remember it, anyone have any more info on this
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Post by piercepierce on Sept 6, 2015 14:17:01 GMT
Ago, I remember it from the late 1950s, being used too sail toy boats on and occassionally as a paddling pool for the local children. Whether or not that was its original function I do not know but I think it was drained in the 1960s.
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Post by ago on Sept 7, 2015 3:54:40 GMT
hello piercepierce, yes thanks for that, my daughter lives near by and has been wondering if there is a photo of the pool,
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Post by piercepierce on Sept 7, 2015 9:16:12 GMT
Morning ago, I would try the archives of the Wroxham Leader, library reference section and I have used the reference section in the museum for local research, they are very helpful.
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Post by piercepierce on Sept 7, 2015 9:16:39 GMT
Ago that should have read Wroxham Leader
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Post by ago on Nov 8, 2015 11:44:32 GMT
just had this photo emailed to me by my daughter, sailing boats but no joey.
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Post by ago on Jan 20, 2017 18:38:25 GMT
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Post by breezy on May 3, 2017 0:39:03 GMT
Joey was a swan who lived on the pond at the bottom of Smithy Lane near the smithy... it was still a working smithy then. One night, the pond froze over and poor Joey was trapped in the ice and died. I was four or five years old and felt sad about it and drew a picture of Joey in my diary. Later, his image was carved in relief on a stone and the pond was modernised with cement and walls so it was never the same again. Lovely to see that the stone still exists but I think the pond may have gone now? Poor Joey.
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Post by ago on May 5, 2017 16:08:04 GMT
thank you breezy, and finely the mystery solved, now I wonder if that was the year of the big freeze of 1963 that lasted for over 3 months, then duck's were frozen onto the themes river that made easy pickings for the urban foxes, gulp
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Post by breezy on May 7, 2017 20:43:11 GMT
It was 1952 ...look closely at the stone carving!
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