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Re: Ground news

By Armchair vulture (Armchair Observer)7/11/2025 10:00Fri Nov 7 10:00:46 2025In response to Re: Ground news

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This image from around 1913 shows what the geology of the vale view area is like.
This photo was taken at Stanley brothers no4 clay pit off Greenmore rd.
The camera position is more or less where the Jubilee centre grounds are looking towards where the George Elliot hospital now stands.
The coal seams outcrop near near the surface and slope in a west/ south west direction where they go much deeper and level out near Arley - shafts in that area were well over 1000 ft deep and even deeper at Daw Mill although the Arley fault prevented mining in that direction from Arley pit.
The clay pit at Vale view was on the Etruria marl in from the outcrop so historic coal working sits underneath the clay pit.

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