FROM PIT-HEAP TO PARK
A miracle is being worked at Aspull. a mining village near \\igan. t J lie neighbourhood I)as been severely hit by the industrial depression, but the people, determined to have beauty for ashes, arc removing an old shale tip and transforming it into a park and recreation ground- It is expected that the conversion of the unsightly heap into a thing of beauty will be completed in a .month or two, and by next summer the village folk Will be enjoying the fruits of their labours. Another bit of ugliness will have gone and a new joy will have come into this countryside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)
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107FROM PIT-HEAP TO PARK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)
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