For #AudioMo day 21 I focused on one particular spot in the area, the Pennytown Ponds. What has come and gone over the years, what was it like 200 years ago and what is it like now. I would love to be able to turn back the clocks and stand in one place as the years go backwards. To see the industrial units vanish, to watch the opencast mine, to see the colliery magically reopen, to see the railway network reappear then vanish and to see the Cotes Park Colliery be un sunk and the whole area returned to farm land.
I plan to carry on this investigation when #AudioMo has finished and trace back the history of this spot even further. Hopefully I'll find out more about the farm, the opening of the colliery and why the ponds are there. I haven't found any more info on the Internet thus far so I will continue my search in the local library. Rest assured I will keep you updated as I discover more. Here are a few images of the changing face of the area over the years from 1890 to 1990.
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