I lived right by Watneys pond in the 80s and it had water in it pretty much all year round. In winter it would flood out onto the road where the cars parked.
One Island Pond used to get quite a lot of hopeful anglers around it in the early 60’s but I don’t ever recall anyone catching anything more than Sticklebacks. I don’t think I ever recall water in Watneys Pond from my time of living in the area up to 1968. Didn’t realise they’ve obviously now closed the road off. Seven Islands although we didn’t go to often as we lived Croydon side of the common, I can remember it drying out quite severely one year in the 60’s to the point where I seem to remember you could get on to one of the bigger islands in the bottom right of the image. Global Warming? Was even happening back then ….. or maybe it just didn’t rain much. Well done. Very interesting.
Ditto earlier comment - I don't remember Watney's Pond being such in the 1960's. Is it a new feature? I notice an additional pond called Bidder's Pond nearby that certainly wasn't there in my day and probably is a crater on top of a rubbish heap filled with water.
@@RalphAstley Bidder's Pond was created in the early 1990s. In the drought of a couple of years ago it was barely a puddle, and ovrflows in wet weather like this year
The greening observed in the satellite images over a span of 20 years only proves that rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been good for plant growth.
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I lived right by Watneys pond in the 80s and it had water in it pretty much all year round. In winter it would flood out onto the road where the cars parked.
One Island Pond used to get quite a lot of hopeful anglers around it in the early 60’s but I don’t ever recall anyone catching anything more than Sticklebacks.
I don’t think I ever recall water in Watneys Pond from my time of living in the area up to 1968. Didn’t realise they’ve obviously now closed the road off.
Seven Islands although we didn’t go to often as we lived Croydon side of the common, I can remember it drying out quite severely one year in the 60’s to the point where I seem to remember you could get on to one of the bigger islands in the bottom right of the image. Global Warming? Was even happening back then ….. or maybe it just didn’t rain much.
Well done. Very interesting.
Seven islands needed to be cleaned, it's water inlet was blocked from I heard.
Ditto earlier comment - I don't remember Watney's Pond being such in the 1960's. Is it a new feature? I notice an additional pond called Bidder's Pond nearby that certainly wasn't there in my day and probably is a crater on top of a rubbish heap filled with water.
@@RalphAstley Bidder's Pond was created in the early 1990s. In the drought of a couple of years ago it was barely a puddle, and ovrflows in wet weather like this year
Interesting that One Island has seen a lot of tree growth around it and Seven Island not so much at all....
The greening observed in the satellite images over a span of 20 years only proves that rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been good for plant growth.