I AM writing with great concern about the idea of the infill site extension being considered for the two farms at Moss Side Moore.

My father worked for the Manchester Ship Canal Company and I, as a child, lived at 'Bob's Bridge', Moss Side and remember my mother wading, up to her knees in water, down to what is Mr J. Morris's farm for milk. The tide burst the tidal bank on the marsh at the other farm which is now farmed by Mr Morris's nephew. I was about four years of age then. The tidal bank was built up and huge dykes were dredged to avert this happening again. Grandfather Parry was the sluiceman at Randles Sluices and when he retired my father was given the job and we moved to Randles Sluices about 1929. My life was lived on the banks of the River Mersey and the tides were part of my father's job. I have experience of seeing the tidal bore coming through the Runcorn gap and spreading out as it came to the wide over Cuerdley Marsh and crashing into Morris's marsh before making its way up to Fiddlers Ferry. The filling in of that marsh land will be a disaster waiting to happen for the people of Sankey. The river will find its own way as it heads for the town of Warrington, it will be another Severn Valley flooding.

I am 79 this year but I know the Mersey very well from past experience.

ELSIE TAYLOR

Waterdale

Canalside

Moore