General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

In Bamfurlong in the 1960s the remains of Bamfurlong Colliery which closed in 1946, which was at the side of the railway just a short distance from where Bamfurlong Station was located, at the Lily Lane bridge, it was full of red shale, the stuff was everywhere in Bamfurlong, and looking across the fields to the large slagheaps which were the Three Ugly Sisters, they were red in colour, so I presume they were composed of red shale too.
But not a trace remains now, and if you go to the bottom of Winstanley Road in Bamfurlong, and look across the fields towards Pemberton, it now looks like the picturesque splendour of the very flat north Cheshire plain

On about the M6 they started making it into a 'Smart Motorway' in 2018 and it is the section between the M62 and the M58 at Orrell, so it's not that far, and it won't be finished until the Spring of 2025, seven years to do the job, and I bet it didn't take that long to build the entire motorway originally.

It's bloody mental