Today we went to watch a friend ride an important mountain bike cross country race, at Lochore Meadows Country Park...sounds good? It was the site of the Mary Mine, one with a sad history of fires, firedamp(methane) explosions and casualties.
Now it is a country park for cycling, walking.sailing, golf...a healthy addition to the community instead of a blight on it.
Such a contrast - the mining life and dangers and the modern day country park, wonder what the miners and their families would think of it now?
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