Post Industrial Landscape: The Lady Nancy Excavation

I have been documenting the excavation of a coal bing (aka slag heap or spoil heap) that until recently was the last sign of the presence of a mine known locally as ‘The Lady Nancy’. The bing was the spoil heap of the mine that closed at least 100 years ago and is now in a field of a local farm. The bing is now being excavated to recover the shale coal piled up there and some of the old mine buildings have been uncovered.

What had become a walk in what looks like a rural beauty spot in recent times is actually a post industrial landscape, like much of the green spaces of the UK. It is also right beside the A725 dual carriageway.

The path that I take to get to this site looks like a farm track but is actually what remains of a narrow gauge railway that served a quarry and lime kilns.