What is this?
Introduction
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What is this?
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 29 May 2016
This object is located near the junction of Lower Bennett Street and Arnside Drive. See 2012 photograph from opposite direction Image I'd always surmised it was originally a gatepost but someone recently suggested it might have been a chimney which was used as a ventilation shaft for the local mine workings. Others have said it could be a guide-post. Local enquiries now appear to indicate that it was just a decorative looking pillar that council workmen had found lying around and thought that it would be a nice thing to stick there for people to admire. It seems to have appeared sometime in the 1980s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.460356
Longitude
-2.088069