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On 22/03/2019 08:08, harry wrote:
On Thursday, 21 March 2019 19:41:37 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 21/03/2019 18:14, ss wrote:
On 21/03/2019 17:27, harry wrote:
When colliery waste tips caught fire, they burned for years.
The resulting ash was red and used as aggregate for all sorts of
things when the tip burned itself out.
Mostly in the 1960's

As yongster we had 2 tips near us that we used to play on.
One was known as the blacky bing and the other as the red bing. (obvious
why)Â* The red bing smoulderd for years until they eventually dismantled
it and used it for building roads that would have been in the 60s 70s.

This was another:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/health...ished-1-987586


Gotta love the sort of gardening you do with bulldozers dump trucks and
JCBs....


And some images of a red bing:
http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/...hp?f=12&t=7251


Looks great for trailbiking



The land will be permanently polluted with heavy metals, maybe even radioactive.
The last place you want to buy a house is there.

I drive past it on the M8 very fast...tee hee

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