Originally posted by WPRESTO The second image is luscious. It's marvelous how an English town can be so well and extensively built, with its local stream completely confined by stonework, brickwork and cement, and still look enchantingly bucolic as if it were free from all that troubles the world.
It’s a great composition there and its mercifully free of parked cars, road signs etc!
It’s a very interesting area because of its role in the industrial development of Manchester.
Of course, it’s not really a picture of a rural quiet hamlet, it’s near to busy roads and even the motorway thunders past nearby. But down by the canal and in the woods there are some smashing quiet spots away from it all.
John