Swan Lake Loop - Part 05 -The Missing Link
w/e 27 June 2021
All of this week's pictures were taken with a Kodak DX6490
Having reached Pewit Carr we negotiated the (still)
muddy patch and another puddle near the entrance to continue
our walk through the Nature Reserve in order to complete the
Walking For Health (WFH) route back to Swan Lake.
We stuck to the main path through Pewit Carr but there are other
paths leading back to the embankment we had crossed earlier.
One is just visible in the lower centre of this image and another
runs along another embankment on the right which once carried
a railway line.
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Another path exits the Reserve into fields at the rear of properties
on High Lane East at West Hallam and the path continues up to
the road. We however swung round to the left to continue through
the Reserve.
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It's now a pleasant walk with a wooded area on the left and glimpses
of a Sports Ground to the right.
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This is the Arthur Fisher Memorial Ground, now home to the Nutbrook
Cricket Club but still remembered as the EMEB Sports and Social
Club Ground where I spent many hours with the Ilkeston Electric
Football Club.
Ilkeston Electric FC 1972-73
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Our walk through Pewit Carr was accompanied by bird song although
we didn't see many birds as they were high in the trees but a
Red Admiral butterfly decided to land at the side of us in a
sunny spot at the edge of the path.
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Eventually we reached the end of the path and exited the Reserve
to join High Lane East.
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Turning left we walked along High Lane East for a couple of hundred
yards before turning through a gap in the hedge to re-enter the
Straw's Bridge Nature Reserve, Swan Lake.
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The path leads through the wildflower meadow to the water's edge.
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And at the water's edge a reception committee was waiting expecting
another feed.
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The "missing link" now continues around Swan Lake to
pick up the WFH route on the far side to return to the Victoria
Park Leisure Centre in Ilkeston, the route we followed earlier
in the year in Part 03 of the original
walk when we were forced to vary the planned route..
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