#Manvers Lake

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Today, I swam.

Swimming in circles. Leaping train carriages. One legged men.

Those who know me, know this past year, I have taken to swimming. Today was my longest two and a half hours and furthest 4.2km. I am not a fast swimmer. I only properly learned to swim when I was 17 studying for O-Levels at Langside College. Before then I used to perform a front crawl that I had copied off the TV. One of those 1980’s action-adventure series with American Vietnam Vets who have…

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Sunday morning trails at Manvers #run #instarunners #running #instafit #runners #runsonplants #nomeatathlete #fit #fitness #plantpower #vegan #parkrun #health #exercise #gooutdoors #healthandfitness #progress #instarunners  #veganrunners #veganrunner #runnerspace #runner #nodaysoff #fitspo #fueledbyplants #runstreak #spartan #spartanuk #ocr (at Manvers Lake And The Tp Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU2P-YfIUFd/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#30DaysWild 1st-30th June. Day Nineteen. Watch Sunrise, or Sunset .What can you hear in the wild? I will be adding to this virtual sunrise/sunset all today. 30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts' annual nature challenge where they ask the nation to do one 'wild' thing a day every day throughout June. Your daily Random Acts of Wildness can be anything you like - litter-picking, birdwatching, puddle-splashing, you name it! I would love to feature your published/unpublished photos/artworks/writing on your random acts. Please contact me.

#30DaysWild 1st-30th June. Day Nineteen. Watch Sunrise, or Sunset .What can you hear in the wild? I will be adding to this virtual sunrise/sunset all today. 30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts’ annual nature challenge where they ask the nation to do one ‘wild’ thing a day every day throughout June. Your daily Random Acts of Wildness can be anything you like – litter-picking, birdwatching, puddle-splashing, you name it! I would love to feature your published/unpublished photos/artworks/writing on your random acts. Please contact me.

Day Nineteen Manvers Lake Sunset by Paul Brookes Sunset As the sun sets I seek.Before closing the curtains.Watching the colours between the trees.Indigo, peach and cloudy blue.Would I have noticed this before the lockdown?As we remain here, still, in the present.Watching wistfully, as I hear my neighbour’s muted talk from next door.We are all weary, but remain focussed on the frontline of…

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Wath Manvers Lake❤️

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Poured water on their back's. They didn't care. (at Manvers Lake And The Tp Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CESTqttlG4s/?igshid=e4uk66051cvh

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Tests on 50-year-old evidence turn up new leads in cold case

MANVERS TWP. – Fifty years after William Hall was killed, new evidence has been discovered that could be the key to solving the teen’s murder.

“Utilizing the new technology that’s out there, we have extracted some DNA,” says Det. staff Sgt. Paul Rosato of the OPP’s central criminal investigations unit, who is handling the cold case.

“It’s more than one person,” he added.

Incredibly, scientists at the Centre of Forensic Sciences were also able to turn up new fingerprints.

While Rosato did not want to reveal more specifics, he added that the evidence had simply been stored in standard paper and plastic evidence bags all these years, just waiting for technology to catch up with the plethora of information they still had to offer.

“I was quite surprised,” he says, noting that after so many years, he just assumed there would no longer be any viable DNA evidence.

“It is absolutely wonderful what can be found with today's forensic and DNA technology,” adds Marie McGean, one of William’s dozen siblings, who has long been an advocate for her brother and spokesperson for the family.

William Beirhens Hall, called Billy by his sister, was originally from North Sydney, N.S. His sister, four years his junior, remembers him playing with the neighbourhood boys growing up, but says that since she asked for his case to be re-opened, she feels like she has gotten to know him much better through small stories shared among the family.

The last time McGean saw her brother, she was 11 years old and seeing him off at the train station as he headed to Ontario for work.

READ MORE: OPP working to get closure for family of murdered teen found in Manvers Twp. 50 years ago

William was living in Port Credit, Ont. with a brother during the summer of 1967 when he was killed.  After doing some errands in Lakeview on July 19, it is believed William was planning on joining another person to seek out work on a tobacco farm, but he was never seen again.

William’s badly decomposed body was discovered by a road superintendent on Concession 2 in Manvers Township about 50 feet off the road in the bush, 12 days after he disappeared. William’s black, 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Sedan was found abandoned with a flat tire at the intersection of Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway less than a month after his disappearance. Police say it had been there since July 22.

An autopsy revealed that William was shot in the back of the head with a small calibre gun.

Bowmanville OPP originally took the case, building on a report from a driver saying he had picked up a hitchhiker on Highway 401, near Victoria Avenue on July 19, and dropped him off in Bowmanville with the names of two tobacco farms. Further investigation failed to uncover the mystery of the teen’s death.

McGean describes how each of her siblings were in very different places in their lives when they heard of their brother’s death. She adds that those closest to it were her brothers who lived close to William at the time: Larry, who shared his home with his brother; David, who had recently done the same; and Don, who read the first article about the body being found.

“All my brothers and sisters had their own individual traumas with Billy's horrific death,” says McGean.

Most of all, however, she says her mother was never able to accept her son’s tragic end, right up until the day she died in 2009.

“Our dear mother would not believe for many years that he had died. She had no closure to help her; my brother was buried before we knew he had died. There was no wake and there was no body to see,” says McGean, adding that even when her mom visited the Ontario gravesite years later, she still did not believe it was her son.

“No mother should ever have to go through what she did,” says McGean.

For now, she says the only closure the family can have is bringing her brother’s ashes home to be at rest with their mother’s grave in the spring.

She hopes they will get closure of a different kind, with the solving of the case, now that the new forensic evidence has been discovered.

Of course both the new DNA and fingerprint evidence have already been put through the rigours of testing through existing databases, says Rosato, so now they are looking outward to the public anew for information.

“Somebody has the clue that can blow this wide open for us,” says Rosato, adding that someone could potentially be eligible for the $50,000 reward now being offered in the case.

“I would like to plead with the public, especially those in the Pontypool area, if there is anything whatsoever that they can remember about the time period of July 19, 1967 to Aug. 3, 1967, it may help. It could be seeing my brother's car or my brother himself. It could be a few young fellows having a meal in a restaurant. Yes, it is a long time ago, but as the saying goes ... there is always someone that knows somebody, that knows something,” adds McGean.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Const. Det. Tim Ginn of Kawartha Lakes OPP at 705-324-6741.

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10k, little injuries, niggles / frailty, and rebirth.

A reflection on age and ageing and turning-in against the wall as the sun shines and the spring turns into summer.

I haven’t written in a few weeks, as On most Saturdays and Sundays these summer days, early, crepuscular time, I am off, At the lake Wetsuit and goggles. Today, Is the Don Valley 10k. I have my name on the list, There is a number waiting, a medal and t-shirt at the end and I am at home. (This is last year’s advert) My ankle hurts. The left one To be precise. Last week I Ran…

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Black Swan

Have you seen the black swan? Have you dressed as Eminem? Have you grown old?

A black swan event is something unusual or unexpected. It’s a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb It is also a song by Thom Yorke. And a movie starring Natalie Portman. I discussed this with my daughter recently. She said, ‘I know.’ As your children grow, they gain knowledge. When previously you could amaze them with a fact or nugget of arcana They now Will have already Googled, absorbed,…

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Open water swim and the bite of the pike

Are fishermen's rod's a phallic symbol? Just a thought. I feel sorry for the fish.

If anyone is interested, I survived yesterday’s swim.  I was at Manvers Lake which is situated in the Dearne Valley, an area of former coal mines in South Yorkshire between Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster.  I have driven past the sign to Manvers many times and never knew about the lake.   Whenever I thought of Manvers I would also think of Elvers which is the name for baby eels, I would also…

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Nice and easy, Really happy as this was my exact planned pace for today. (10mi/90mins) #run #instarunners #running #instafit #runners #runsonplants #nomeatathlete #barefootrunning #fitness #plantpower #vegan #altrarunning #health #exercise #barefoot #healthandfitness #progress #instarunners  #veganrunners #veganrunner #runnerspace #runner #nodaysoff #fitspo #fueledbyplants #obstacles #spartan #spartanuk #ocr #ocrtraining   (at Manvers Lake)

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Firegob And Flametongue, Ash and Paper: A Pagan’s Year (Stubborn Sod, The Headpoke And Firewedding, Our Ghost’s Holiday.) A creative exploration of sources used to create my poetry series.

Firegob And Flametongue, Ash and Paper: A Pagan’s Year (Stubborn Sod, The Headpoke And Firewedding, Our Ghost’s Holiday.) A creative exploration of sources used to create my poetry series.

  The Headpoke And Firewedding

covers months June and July. In my own mind the other two books, Stubborn Sod and Our Ghost’s Holiday revolve around this book. Chronologically, this book was written first. I would love it to have been accompanied by the art of Marcel Herms, but I did not know him at this time, so I used my own photos.

The front cover photo was taken at Manvers Lake.

Firegob And…

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Not seen one of those in the sky for a while. (at Manvers Lake And The Tp Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAwyxEwjusV/?igshid=11iig7w9t522k

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This Oak: A Pagan’s Year (Stubborn Sod, The Headpoke And Firewedding, Our Ghost’s Holiday.) A creative exploration of sources used to create my poetry series, featuring the cracking art of Marcel Herms.

This Oak: A Pagan’s Year (Stubborn Sod, The Headpoke And Firewedding, Our Ghost’s Holiday.) A creative exploration of sources used to create my poetry series, featuring the cracking art of Marcel Herms.

  This Oak

There is more about groves and trees in the second of this series of books that explores June and July. Called “The Headpoke and Firewedding”, it was the first to be written and the others could be said to revolve around it.

https://arboriculture.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/trees-and-religion-paganism/

The “balancing pool” is a reference to Manvers Lakethat was created when Manvers pit…

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After work stroll (at Manvers Lake And The Tp Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAVu4_5lmj5/?igshid=1x9s7fw4484sp

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Manvers Lake at dusk and Dragon Boat training (at Manvers Lake and Dearne Valley Trust Limited) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2momuOFzG_/?igshid=1c949u5qaryed

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5k Loops at Manvers #run #instarunners #running #instafit #runners #runsonplants #nomeatathlete #fit #fitness #plantpower #vegan #healthyliving #health #exercise #gooutdoors #healthandfitness #progress #instarunners  #manvers #tracknation #runnerspace #runner #nodaysoff #fitspo #fueledbyplants #obstacles #spartan #spartanuk #ocr #ocrtraining  (at Manvers Lake and Dearne Valley Trust Limited) https://www.instagram.com/p/B13P5RsDXpG/?igshid=u84e8r13xggo