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I\u2019ve been making a start on archiving the colour slides taken by\u00a0Richard Brook<\/strong> (1943-2017)<\/em>, for many years the Conservation Officer of the Society. He photographed the East Ash Lagoon at Leventhorpe from the lagoon\u2019s northwest corner on Sunday, 2 September, 1973.<\/p>\n He could see the potential of these lagoons as nature reserves and he documented every one of them \u2013 along with subsidence flashes and sand quarries -within five or six miles radius of Wakefield, so his collection of slides form a unique record of post-industrial West Yorkshire. I’m putting together a small selection of his slides for members’ night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been making a start on archiving the colour slides taken by\u00a0Richard Brook (1943-2017), for many years the Conservation Officer of the Society. He photographed the East Ash Lagoon at Leventhorpe from the lagoon\u2019s northwest corner on Sunday, 2 September, … Continue reading