I don't know why I am surprised but it has changed so much over the last 55 years, when I used to cycle to the Pool as a child from Condover. If anything it is much less mysterious, then we believed the Pool to have a monster like the Loch Ness Monster, which was the legend of the fish. The stories of the fish appear to be related to Asrai (mermaids), I personally believe them to relate to an animistic allegory of attempting to control nature. A few years later, when living in Bayston Hill I remember a BBC production of Precious Bane (I am sure an earlier production to the 1988/9 one and later than 1957, by 1988 I was living in Manchester, but then my memory of the Pool is clearly clouded), which I erroneous believed to be set in Ellesmere, when it was actually Bomere.
I remember the pool from the 1980s, it’s been landscaped a bit round the edges, but was always surrounded by trees and undergrowth. Yes the fish legends could be later people making sense of the Asrai story’s? Thanks for taking the time to comment.
interesting place, so many legends
There’s probably more. 👍
great watch dan didn't realise there was a lake in condover beautiful place for a picnic best wishes Phil 👍
Thanks Phil! 👍👍
I don't know why I am surprised but it has changed so much over the last 55 years, when I used to cycle to the Pool as a child from Condover. If anything it is much less mysterious, then we believed the Pool to have a monster like the Loch Ness Monster, which was the legend of the fish. The stories of the fish appear to be related to Asrai (mermaids), I personally believe them to relate to an animistic allegory of attempting to control nature.
A few years later, when living in Bayston Hill I remember a BBC production of Precious Bane (I am sure an earlier production to the 1988/9 one and later than 1957, by 1988 I was living in Manchester, but then my memory of the Pool is clearly clouded), which I erroneous believed to be set in Ellesmere, when it was actually Bomere.
I remember the pool from the 1980s, it’s been landscaped a bit round the edges, but was always surrounded by trees and undergrowth. Yes the fish legends could be later people making sense of the Asrai story’s? Thanks for taking the time to comment.