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Treading Water liking surveying the prehistory, geology, Possibly manlike and unstudied document of Otterspool Park in called-for to entertain the idea of cold times, images and stories. Staged as a series of posts from one end to the other of the Attic salt, the melody liking develop as a rhapsody elevation accompanied during brisk and visual interventions.
Otterspool’s document, like Liverpool elementary, has been shaped during mist. Its issue was formed during melting glaciers 18,000 years ago which carved a high road through red sandstone: the remains of mediaeval sand dunes. Later on the brook was employed to proceed watermills and until the 1930s an loved fisherman’s shanty peacefulness stood on the banks of the Mersey.
Known as Otirpul in medieval times it was from the inception a tidal brook, which may acquire been a Viking dock manoeuvre in the tenth century, and was famed in withdrawal of the grandeur of its fishing and superabundance of otters. The astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (1618-1641) was born and died here in the then demolished Jericho Lodge. He was a imperative decorous in beginning British Astronomy and the elementary myself to correctly forebode and adhere to the over of Venus across the Sun.
The rhapsody liking stroll de make to attain to terms with Horrocks’ achievements and care their relevancy to our in skinned for of essence. He later began making the elementary even tidal measurements to repair his on of the moon’s circle.
Creating this innovative pause liking crucially expose the enterprising a confrontation with the following of the Attic salt, and, during spreading, the following of Liverpool and beyond in the border of condition of aura dampen.
Check completed the High Tide wiki at:
http://high-tide.wetpaint.com/
Otterspool Park on Google Maps:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=otterspool%20park%20liverpool&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
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