The aerial photograph from 1930 of the site shows what I think is a coal washery along with extensive railway sidings to the east of the site. These are long gone and housing has recently been built on the site, it as this is at a lower elevation than the colliery, the headframe on the east of the site towers over the estate.

I’d seen a few photographs showing this so I decided that I wanted to take some as well to show its position on the new landscape in which it sits. I enjoyed the incongruity of the scene, a modern housing estate with this as a backdrop. I’ve seen plenty of old photographs of headgear towering over terraced housing but nothing like this!