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Grange Colliery walk In the woodland behind the Grange Colliey (picture 1) there are ten brass cast sculptures. The sculptures came from a workshop sculptor Marcela Livingston did with local . The ’s poet laureate Matt Black, sourced or wrote a poem/story for each sculpture from the 's ideas and the poems were inscribed on metal plaques beside each sulpture. Sadly the plaques have all been stolen. I photographed 2 of the sculptures - Crow girl (picture 2) who had a hollow wooden leg and hid things that she stole down inside the hollow section and Yazier (picture 3) who is shown crouching down to examine a flower. The colliery itself (picture 4 from about 1900 - not one of mine ) once employed 800 men and was worked for over 0 until 1963. The pathway into the woodland follows the railway line (See viaduct picture 5 and pictures 6 +7 following the route) down a junction with the main line from Sheffield. I cut off before the now derelict station and followed the, at times very tricky, path round the golf course and back the colliery site -- now a set of playing fields with some lying snow (pictures 8, 9 +). The rapid snow melt over the last 36 hours has left a lot of quite deep mud and some very slippery sections on the hilly parts of the path.           |
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Sadly the snow melted before I could take this walk. I am sure it would have looked magical in deep snow -- and I may not have risked my neck on some of the hilly parts.
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