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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]From the Derby Evening Telegraph Centenary Edition 1979. No look back over the past century would be complete without mention of the change which has taken place in the landscape of the area, ugly pit tips being transformed into green hills. Probably the most graphic has been at Shipley, between the two towns, (Heanor and Ilkeston) where in recent years, Derbyshire County Council in partnership with the National Coal Board have created a huge country park largely out of spoil heaps and scars of three centuries of mining. And it is here where the most fitting monument to the past 100 years of Ilkeston and Heanor can be found. At the entrance to the park, standing stark, strong and defiant are the colliery headstocks of the old Woodside Colliery, the last visible trace of mining there. They act as a memorial to those thousands of men who in many cases spent their entire working lives deep in the bowels of the earth: they are a reminder to people today and to future generations of the vital part which mining played in the development of two towns. PAULR[/quote]
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Shipley History
replied on: 10/5/2006 2:23:38 PM

From the Derby Evening Telegraph Centenary Edition 1979.
No look back over the past century would be complete without mention of the change which has taken place in the landscape of the area, ugly pit tips being transformed into green hills. Probably the most graphic has been at Shipley, between the two towns, (Heanor and Ilkeston) where in recent years, Derbyshire County Council in partnership with the National Coal Board have created a huge country park largely out of spoil heaps and scars of three centuries of mining.
And it is here where the most fitting monument to the past 100 years of Ilkeston and Heanor can be found.
At the entrance to the park, standing stark, strong and defiant are the colliery headstocks of the old Woodside Colliery, the last visible trace of mining there.
They act as a memorial to those thousands of men who in many cases spent their entire working lives deep in the bowels of the earth: they are a reminder to people today and to future generations of the vital part which mining played in the development of two towns.
PAULR

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