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Dist:0.3km<br/>Spoil heaps riven with gullies and a deep 'flash' make this scene from 1974 completely unrecognisable now. This area of former mining waste between Higher Folds and Gin Pit village has long since been landscaped.
©Chris Denny
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©Dave Green
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking up Lodge Lane from the East wall of Leigh Cemetery.
©Margaret Clough
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©Anthony Parkes
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©SMJ
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©Ian Greig
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©Ian Greig
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©Ian Greig
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©Dave Green
Dist:0.7km<br/>Although the houses on this estate are mostly the same as in 1974 and there is still only one road into it, the surroundings are much improved, with the ever visible spoil heaps (locally called 'rucks') now landscaped with woods and footpaths.
©Chris Denny
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©Dave Green
Dist:0.7km<br/>Taken from the North West corner of Leigh Cemetery.
©Margaret Clough
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©Dave Green
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©Anthony Parkes
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©Alex McGregor

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