No 4 ... Aerial Photos of Old lodge from the 1990s ... No 4.

OL2 in foreground, looking east along m1 and road

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The road is visible for most of the way, indicating that the silver birch that has since dominated, must have been still rather small.  There is quite a lot of open bracken, judging from the colour, and maybe gorse still.

The m1 is narrow and appears to have an exposed bank of peat scrapings or mowing, even though the m1 itself looks as if it has heather covering it.  There are chunks of bracken at the far end near the roller stand visible.

The track along the M1 that curves across and joins the other along the fence line, can perhaps be seen as a rather different earlier track that continued round the contours and cutting back in OL2 towards Old Lodge buildings.  The patch of bright green would on this basis be a junction between the old track running parallel with the M1 in OL2 and this curved track.  This is speculation of course.

You can again see a yellow object on South heath, and also a white object, which occurred in an earlier photo but could then have been a reproduction artifact.

The quarry near the old lodge is clear.

There are lots of small blobs on the OL2 side of the cricket pitch.  Are these Ragwort?

The dense  trees on the north side of the road from the Roller stand onwards are really clear in this photo.

Has the top heath near the car park recently been scraped as well?

Martin