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le_tigre_boy wrote:Ricky, When I were a lad I used to use these bings when I was cycling around Broxburn,, Didn't quite realise how dangerous it could have been until I was older!! They are a spectacular sight.. Shame alot of them have gone though.
I would still ove to find an old mine entrance to get into though.
The prize of European shale gas is in sight. The question is whether it will become the subject of further politicised, unwinnable ideological battles, or a driver of environmental, economic and geopolitical revival.
Lucky Poet wrote:I know the place you mean, cell, and it is odd. One of my favourite bike runs goes past the entrance, which looks amusingly like the way in to a Bond villain's lair.
jock78 wrote:No one seems to have mentioned yet,-
'The five fingers of Addiewell' This large bing had 5 tipping runs-there was a move in the 70s to have it 'listed' as a historical building. Don't think it progressed further.
Also' Paraffin Young' who very much involved in the production of oil from shale for lamp oil before mechanized transport.
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