Reclaiming the spoil heaps of Bickerstaffe Colliery

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iBase ID

269281

Reference identifier

SKE20151010012

Title

Reclaiming the spoil heaps of Bickerstaffe Colliery

Place

Bickerstaffe

General notes

Members of the Territorial Army, Liverpool 508 Squadron, with earth moving equipment work on leveling the spoil heaps on the site of the old Bickerstaffe Colliery. At this time the main spoil heap had already been planted with 16,000 trees, the attention was on the smaller heaps lying between the main heap and the Rainford By-pass. Planting was to follow. The men working on Sundays with 2 bulldozers moved 300 tone of earth per hour watched by County officials and a newsreel cameraman. Mr. Coates, the County Planning Officer, launched the scheme to bring back into use 10,000 acres of this type of lost land across the County. The road in the distance is the Rainford Bypass.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

16 x 11.5

Year of image

1953

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Locator

E02

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