Strange feeling....

Now, when we went to Rainworth the other weekend, I had a walk around what was Bilthorp Colliery (as part of my #getfitordie campaign ), where Suzie's Uncle Albert worked...

When we were there last Christmas, lots of twitter rumours about Maggie Thatcher dying, and it felt right that this would be the place to celebrate that event...it was just a rumour! But now the witch has gone, and so has the colliery, completely. To get to it, you walk along the rail line that took the coal away...

Now it looks a tad different...

 This led to what is now called Boundary Wood...you would not know that people lived, survived, died here...

Wasn't until i started walking over the old slag heap that you had any sense of the industrial landscape that was at the heart of the place.  A slab of concrete here and there...

 And underneath my feet, grey sludge...