The drought exposed an old bridge because the River Ryburn has been reduced to little more than a trickle, leaving the Baitings Reservoir, above Ripponden, West Yorkshire, UK water levels at an all-time low.
This was a bridge submerged when the reservoir was built in the 1950s.
"It is very interesting for a local historian because we can actually see the foundations of the bridge and the structure of it, which hasn't been revealed for quite a number of years," she explained. "For example, you can tell very distinctly that it is a 19th-century industrial build."
During a previous dry spell, there was a more gruesome discovery – the possible victim of a gangland killing.
"In 1989, they found the body of a 23-year-old man," Greenwood explained. "He'd been shot in the head and his body weighed down by a pickaxe – and sadly the case has never been solved." Investigators identified the man as 23-year-old Laurence Winstanley, who was last seen leaving a pub in Oldham the previous year.
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