Birch Coppice Mining Memorial
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The photograph on this page of Birch Coppice Mining Memorial by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Birch Coppice Mining Memorial
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 5 Jun 2014
In the form of a giant miner's lamp on a brick pedestal. The surrounding brickwork is inscribed with names of over 1000 people known to have worked worked at the Birch Coppice mines. The colliery closed in 1987.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.599725
Longitude
-1.627455