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Pendlebury Lane Haigh

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Pendlebury cottage
Pendlebury cottage
Photo: Peter Walsh
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Item #: 32498
Three joined cottages near the canal bridge about 1950 showing euclids starting the open cast coal mining.

Comment by: John Randall Barbour on 1st October 2021 at 19:37

Remember well the noise 24/7 of these heavey open cast mining machines near the Old Boys Playing fields which is there now. On the rare occasions when they where not operating I remember looking around the machines and bringing home fossils of sea shells. Imagine the area was once under the sea/

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