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Memories of Seven Acres

At the recent 'Walk on the Wild Side' event at Bolton Museum, people were invited to add their memories of Seven Acres onto our memory tree. Here are a selection of them.........

I dont have a single favourite memory of Seven Acres - there are just too many! Watching four dragonflies fighting over a pond, looking for newts, toads and frogs, seeing herons and kingfishers catching fish in the brook, standing beneath a hovering kestrel, seeing a weasel running away, stumbling over a scurrying hedgehog, being inspected by inquisitive bats, seeing my first deer ...... I'd need a whole forest rather than a tree!

Seeing and hearing all the bats on 7 Acres

I remember it being overgrown and looking like a tip back in the early 80s

Going pond dipping at Seven Acres because we found a lot of funny creatures

Happy memories of our art group visiting 7 acres on an outdoor painting project

Picking blackberries!

I remember sledging with my friends down the steep slope from Crompton Way into the field at 7 Acres. This was many years ago - the 'sledging slope' is now covered with trees - no good for sledging now but very beautiful

Cleaner, fresh air. The visual beauty of seasonal change. Looking after important habitats.

I love watching Swifts and Martins swooping and feeding above the river in summer.

Playing near the stream, looking at the wild orchis as a child. Taking my beautiful dog Zac to play and run wild in lovely surroundings

I liked the lichens!

The thing what is nice about country walks is catching the butterflies. I got a purple and blue one.

My memory of wildlife was seeing a family of deer so near to Blackburn Rd Bolton

My earliest memory of the 7 Acres is being taken there for a walk with my Dad and our new puppy, Rusty, a golden cocker spaniel - more than 50 years ago!

My earliest memory of wildlife was looking at flowers with my mum

I have lived in the countryside and when I was wee and I kept finding a weird rock. I covered it with eyes!