Along the Riverbank (Part 3)

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After taking photographs of wild roses and damsel flies we turned and returned towards the burnt down mill and I told Adam how my mum had swum in the river just before reaching the mill. These days it's considered too dangerous but Mum and her friends were aware of the dangers and kept a safe distance from where the water dropped and passed through to the other side of the mill. Sadly, one day during the early 1940's one of Mum's friends took her little brother there and, being young and unaware of the dangers, he went into the lower water and was sucked through the mill and went right through to the other side and died. This photo is of the safer side of the mill and where Mum spent many a happy hour swimming with her friends during the summer.