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The rows of terraces, albeit not the red brick of Yorkshire or the North East, hark back to mining days. The Somerset coalfield was based on Radstock and in nearby Westfield, First Bath Streetlite 47547 SN14FFX makes its way
These bees were making holes in the grass banks in the churchyard at Holy Trinity Church, Rayleigh, Essex.
The problems occurring with strip mining can be far worse than anyone could expect. Every year many miners lose there lives due to accidents from lack of safety. Mining should take on more serious training for equipment operators. There should be more strict guidelines. When the units leave a specific area, the company operators should immediately start the reclamation process. Coal operators should have to replant three trees for every one cut down. I’m not certain of the regulations on reclamations, but I am sure they’re not being followed thoroughly. Agencies like the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the Department of Mines and Minerals make it harder for coal operators to just walk away form a job without doing the refurnishing process. They make sure that the land will restored to be as beautiful as it once was. If more and more companies would follow the rules when it comes to reclaiming the land, the amount of problems that occur from it could possibly decrease. Personally, I think it is at least worth the try.
Scott Maggard brings his buggy towards the mouth of the mine as he prepares to enter into the darkness under the mountain above him.
The Holly Leaf Miner is a small fly with larvae that cause discoloured blotches by feeding inside holly leaves. Grubs of the holly leaf miner tunnel inside the leaves. There is one generation a year, and the adult flies lay eggs on the new foliage in May to June. When the larvae have completed their feeding in the following spring, they pupate inside the leaf mines.
There is plenty of evidence of their mining work at Warley Place Nature Reserve!
I don't think I've ever seen a mining bee before, but think this is one. From my book, it looks like Andrena haemorrhoa. Happy to be corrected. There is also a mite in this shot.
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Riddochhill Colliery, Blackburn. Gavin Paul & Sons Ltd, Colliery Owners and family coal merchants.
Date: c.1903.
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Risca Colliery's two shafts were sunk in 1875 with coal production starting in 1878. On 15 July 1880 an explosion killed 120 men and boys due to the miners preferring to use older "Clanny" lamps to the new Davy safety lamps. Clanny lamps were subsequently banned in mines. An explosion in 1860 at the nearby Black Vein Colliery had already claimed the lives of 146 men and boys. The colliery closed in 1967 and is now the site of an industrial estate.
The chapel was built in 1858 to provide English language services for the influx of "foreign" workers to the expanding industries. It was enlarged in 1875.