My parents named me Jack Malago Goolden. They thought it would be nice to name me after something local to where they were living when I was born. The Malago is a river in South Bristol.
Mount MalagoMy sister was leading an expedition in uncharted area of Greenland (honest!). While they were there they got to name the mountains and features they encountered and map them out for future generations. Being a very loyal sister, she named a mountain after me.
As you can see, it's kind of 'M' shaped.
The MalagoThis shows the path of The Malago as it passes under Bedminster Road. It's not a very big river.
The Malago is approximately 5km long.
The Survey of Abandoned Trolleys in Watercourses in Bristol found 20 trolleys in The Malago in 2005, making it the second most popular waterway for Bristolians to dump their shopping trolleys!
And here you can see a green slice where The Malago travels between some industrial estates on it's way towards the A74.
Annual standardised biological sampling undertaken at Malago Vale in 2005 (during spring- summer) records the number of invertebrate families present at this site. They found 4, giving it a rank of 'highly polluted'.
A mattress in the Malago, probably thrown from the Marksbury Road bridge. Other items listed as being sighted in The Malago include; the remains of a bed, a melted plastic chair, a lawnmower, a fridge, a shopping trolley and two bicycles.
The Malago as it discharges from an underground pipe into the New Cut of the Avon.Click here for a survey of the ammonia, dissolved oxygen and faecal coliforms found in The Malago between 1995 and 2005.
