Blowing in the Wind; Poppies in former waste field near Covern Heath Sewage Works

After leaving the Staff and Worcs Canal at the Sewage Works at Coven Heath, Bridge 69, we came to Shaw Hall Lane. We were to take the footpath across fields to rejoin the Shropshire Union Canal.

Google Earth shows that the footpath and fields, towards the canal from the Sewage Works at Coven Heath, as being orderly and planted, but when this photo was taken in August 2005 the fields were waste with many large pipes laid out; it seemed to have been left untouched for a few years and some big project for the Sewage Works had been left in abeyance.

The area had started to be colonised by wild flowers including these lovely poppies.