THE AVON'S DEPTH.
CHANGE- IN QUARTER CENTURY. Satisfactory progress is being made, by the Drainage Board's river-sweeper, which is now working near the tea kiosk in the Domain. Above the Armagh street bridge, where the silt raised .Higher up the Avon had ac;_
cumulated, the sweeper proceeded at the rate of five chains a day, no difficulty being experienced in moving the congestion. A shingle bar -was safely navigated yesterday morning. An interesting commentary on the changes in the river's action" was found at the point; just above Christ's College where two posts still stand, (narkin» the bathing pool of a quarter of a centurv aco. Here a solid gravel foun dation* was found only three feet sis inches below the surface of the Avon, provinrr that it must have been. con-
siderably higher up the bank in those days to allow of the swimming and diving there.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 13 September 1927, Page 6
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