Wild Flowers on the Coal Tip
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Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 27 Aug 2011
Twenty five years after mining ceased at Snowdown Colliery, the waste tip which covers a big patch of land to the SE of the mine is gradually growing over. Some is still bare stone but parts are now healthy young woodland. That's a lump of coal I put in front there.