The Soldier's Pool Crawick

This is the Soldiers pool in the Crawick Water close to Crawick Village, Sanquhar.
When my mum was a little girl she used to play along the river and in the woods. The wood are called the Holm Wood's.
When I was young I used to swim in the Soldier's pool and when Hungary we used to light a fire and boil water for tea, we would use our Billycans (old baby milk cans) and when the tea was ready we would site and have our sandwiches that our mums had made for us.
You can see how clean the water is in the rive, and it must be the coldest river around Sanquhar to swim in.
I think that these days only a handful of people swim in the rivers around Sanquhar or Kirkconnel. That's a pity because they are missing out on just being somewhere that is so beautiful