Catherine had opportunity to visit Nikki and the community garden at #Fallin Stirlingshire last week great to see the former Polmaise (3, 4 & 5) Colliery site repurposed and brought back into production. Much more on this black to green story to follow….
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Sandstone colours and patterns Pathhead Beach #Kirkcaldy #Fife
If you want to know how to use #geology to turn post-industrial landscapes into places of family fun there is time to book a place on our free webinar. For link and more info nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news
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New blog uploaded to the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum’s collection from the Lesmahagow Parish Historical Association👉 lpha.org.uk exploring the mining village of #Auchenheath South #Lanarkshire👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog #MiningHistory
One for #FerrousFriday discarded wire rope emerging from the eroding Michael Colliery bing East #Wemyss #Fife #Coal Coast
Located in isolation a small but significant surviving landscape legacy of #coal the magazine for the Donibristle mines adjacent to the B925 Crossgates to Moss Moran #Fife Thanks to Iain C for pic and information #MiningHeritage #MiningLandscapes
CALLOUT TO EAST #WHITBURN. Fancy helping Whitdale primary with their first ever #mininglandscapes journey in East Whitburn #WestLothian. DM or get in touch with aileen.mcfarlan@stir.ac.uk for more information.
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Recent storms have brought more falls of the former Michael Colliery bing and bits of old infrastructure onto the beach, East #Wemyss #Fife #Coal coast #MiningLandscapes
The grinding ring and balls that once pulverised the #coal that fed the boilers at the former #Cockenzie power station for #AllMetalMonday #industrialheritage
Still time to book a place on our free webinar if you want to know how to use #geology to turn post-industrial landscapes into places of family fun. For link and more info nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news
Only 4 non Fife colliery plates were produced Auchengeich and Polmaise and 2 county Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire
Fading #coal tides west of #Dysart Harbour #Fife
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Frequently used to prevent livestock straying on to the track the line of Hawthorn marks the Alloa Waggonway spur from Hillend to Grassmainston #Clackmannan
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Also in the run up to Easter Aileen, Catherine and Steff met with the #Carluke Parish Historical Society, South #Lanarkshire to plan a series of walking routes exploring the mining and #industrialheritage of the town and beyond #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage #localwalking
PROJECT NEWS: In the run up to Easter, Aileen met with Bob up on campus to ‘table top’ plan a series of walking routes exploring the lost mining villages of East #Ayrshire #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage
Want to know how to use #geology to turn post-industrial landscapes into places of family fun? Why not book a place on our next free webinar. For link and info nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news
#MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage
Coal Legacies, sooty underside of old rail over bridge Townhill Branch, Dunfermline, Fife #miningheritage
It’s #WorldRatDay Ratticus and Carbonara the two surviving coal rats (Rattus Carbonicus) native to Fife work as project mascots for the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum pictured here hard at field work. For their back story see
www.mining-landscapes.org/blog/the-coa...
This time year when vegetation is still low is great for spotting traces of early #coal mining in the #landscape. The mini #bing Ladywood Pit south of the railway viaduct across the Black Devon, #Clackmannan
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Also last week Aileen, Catherine and Steff (her first day in post) presented the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomusem and how you can use a variety of maps to kick start your own Landscape Journey for ‘Your #Heritage in Focus Taster Sessions’ at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
PROJECT NEWS: last week saw the #MiningLandscapes team out walking the Blaeberry Woods Trim Trail with the @wtscotsocial.bsky.social
and P6 pupils from Whitdale Primary and their support teacher using landscape, nature and stories to bring the history of coal, mining and community to life.
Another extant colliery #bathhouse discovered and added to #MiningLandscapes’ definitive list down at Dunaskin Bridge #Patna East #Ayrshire built in 1953 to serve neighbouring Minnivey Colliery. Total up to 21 see www.mining-landscapes.org/blog/survivi... with 2 more pending site visits.
Anemometer at Westfield Wind Farm on the former open cast coaling site #Ballingry #Fife for #AllMetalMonday
Want to create your own mining walk or cycle route? Why not join Aileen and Catherine for the next #MiningLandscapes free Webinar ‘Using Maps to Kick-start your Landscape Journey’. The first in a ‘how to’ series of five. For information and to book a place nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news
Many of the plates were produced to raise funds for #miningmemorials and will feature on the new #Fife Miners’ Memorial Way which is currently under development see
www.mining-landscapes.org/news/fife-mi...
New blog uploaded to the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum exploring the origins of commemorative Scottish colliery plates see www.mining-landscapes.org/blog #miningmemorabilia #Fife
Back to Doon Valley Railway #Patna East #Ayrshire for #FerrousFriday The ‘Restoration Yard’ #railwayheritage #industriallandscape
Another new route added to #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum the 3rd in the #Crossford #Lanarkshire series by local resident Margaret and National Mining Museum Scotland volunteer Bill focusing on the coal and brick industries in and around #Braidwood See www.mining-landscapes.org/route/172
Last week Aileen and Catherine also met the folks from Doon Valley Railway down at Dunaskin Bridge #Patna in East #Ayrshire A stunning site stuffed full of #industrialarchaeology not just #railwayheritage but brick and iron works, engine houses, mining and the scheduled slag heap #industriallanscape
Out under bleak but dry skies at Westfield the former open cast coaling site between Ballingry and Kinglassie #Fife with Ross from Hargreaves Land mapping a virtual journey that narrates the black to green energy transition whilst the footpaths are planned and constructed.