In Great Houghton
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In Great Houghton
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 21 May 2015
In Great Houghton you can still hear the echoes of coal miners' boots - even though the coal industry shrivelled away a long time ago now. In this photograph you can see The Miners Welfare Hall (1923) and the memorial gardens that still remind passers by of what once was.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.551998
Longitude
-1.34716