At Nose’s Point, a site with rich industrial history since the mid-1800s, we find traces of past factories and coal mining. The area was intensively used for industrial activities from 1855 to 1865 (e.g. Blast furnace, bottle factory, iron works, chemical works). Later, from 1907 to 1991, it housed Dawdon colliery. The coal extraction resulted in vast amounts of rock waste, which was dumped on the nearby beaches for several decades. This has left serious physical and environment impacts on the coast.
Although today’s Nose’s Point may not show obvious signs of its industrial past, there are subtle clues in the landscape, such as the pit head and a fossilized tree, which is actually a Club Moss or Sigillaria. This points to the lush vegetation that once covered the delta tops during the Carboniferous period. The miners extracted and brought up these ‘tree’ stumps from beneath the seabed during the coal mining operation.
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