Right, my first post, hopefully i'll get it right, i'm not doing this blog for other peoples entertainment, but only for my own pleassure, so i can look back in time, to see the places i'v been etc.
My names Tom Clark-Egley, from little village called Clowne, Chesterfield.
I'm not the best person for writing, so if you notice that there's more photoes than text, then, you know why.
I'm starting off with the Ladybower dam, every year some family members come up from down south, and we walk round different parts each year, we usually go around the christmas time, but, this year, we've had to come at easter. Here are some photo's of the place that i have taken:
The photo's above show the Derwent dam. Which is one of three dams in the upper valley in the peak district. The upper two dams are the Howden dam, and the Derwent dam, both of which where completed in 1916, with a gothic style look to them.
The Derwent reservoir was use by the RAF's dambusters 617 squadron to practice their low level flying techniques during the year of 1943, in preperation for delievering Barnes Wallis' famous bouncing bombs to the dams of Germany.
The Ladybower reservoir (the more famous of the three) was constructed at a later date in 1945, which was in order to meet water depends. Doing this however caused controversy to the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton.
After heavy periods of rainfall, the Derwent dam can be seen as "overflowing" (as shown in the pictures) the excessive water is allowed to run over the 600ft crest between the towers, to be collected below for water treatment to nearby Bamford works.
THE DAMBUSTERS ANNIVERSARY IS ON THE 16th OF MAY
