Yes, there were a number of small collieries in the area
The deepening mystery of the hole in my garden
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Yes, there were a number of small collieries in the area
FishFright
More wheels than sense
Be careful where you dig ! There are thousands of lost bell bits around .
@Dadam imo you're sweating your ... ahem .... socksoff for nothing.
Even if you manage to clear all the rubbish, then you will be left with a big hole that will need filled with topsoil.
You only wanted rid of the weeds and the brambles, correct?
A black tarp left over the area for a year, stones/wood/pegs to keep it in place.
Mind, bramble control will always be needed, because their shoots come up from under the ground in search of the light.
Good luck with your gardening efforts.
Thanks but I wanted to (a) get rid of that corrugated sheet and (b) just find out what the hole was going on!
I appreciate the brambles are a life's work ... I hate the prickly bastards! But I do like the fruit!
I really want to landscape the entire back end of the garden, as it seems that part is lawn over a bunch of building rubble and it's a total PITA.
I assume you meant bell pits. Just googled them. Eek!
You need to be careful digging down far. Badly contaminated land could exist which has been poorly mitigated by dumping a load of top soil on it. Shouldn't happen these days and be properly cleaned up although it is often left if being covered by a hard surface - driveways and car parks for example. I'm presuming the car park ar the new Tesco that is being built on the towns former gas works has a dual purpose.
- Location
- Glasgow
I do a lot of gardening on land that used to be builders dump sites or just rubbish dumps, who knows.
With time, nature will claim anything.
Wind, fallen leaves, dead vegetation, will make layers of soil over any heap of rubbish.
Imo, better to leave the rubble/ rubbish alone, add top soil and compost on top, plant up.
Of course now you need to finish to unearth the big plastic sheet and the corrugated sheet, you should have left them, now it's never ending!
I still find shards of glass, crisps packets, beer cans in my communal back garden that used to be a local drinking den 20 years ago.
That rubbish is buried deep, entwined with bramble roots
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
The first house my parents owned was buit in the late 50s
Across the border between my parent's house and the one next door they discovered that the builders had had a lime pit
so my Dad and the bloke next door had to dig the whole thing out and dump the contaminated soil
Might be the same sort of thing - plus rubbish dumped after
In addition - first hosue I built was built on an old patch of scrubland that had been used by local to dump stuff for many years
between my and the bloke next door we unearthed about 2 cars worth of bits
no complete cars - just loads of bits
teh bloke next door worked for a building/demolition company so he took all the crap and stuck it in his van
and then put it in the skips at work
there was a fair bit of metal - 2 engine blocks for a start - so I reckon he got something out of it
Across the border between my parent's house and the one next door they discovered that the builders had had a lime pit
so my Dad and the bloke next door had to dig the whole thing out and dump the contaminated soil
Might be the same sort of thing - plus rubbish dumped after
In addition - first hosue I built was built on an old patch of scrubland that had been used by local to dump stuff for many years
between my and the bloke next door we unearthed about 2 cars worth of bits
no complete cars - just loads of bits
teh bloke next door worked for a building/demolition company so he took all the crap and stuck it in his van
and then put it in the skips at work
there was a fair bit of metal - 2 engine blocks for a start - so I reckon he got something out of it
After 20+ years that pit was still a pit, with pieces of corrugated iron sticking out ready to slice your ankles. The only difference is from time to time it was covered with brambles.
accountantpete
OAP
I remember our estate built in the late 50's - it was built in two phases and the unbuilt land was littered with crater holes which we converted into dens covered with Corrugated iron and metal/wood poles. I expect yours was a similar den at one stage.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
We had one opposite our house
They started build 2 houses on it - looked like they got as far as digging the foundations and the company went bust
foundations are great for playing soldiers
and for building bike ramps
all sorts of carp gathered in there in the decades before someone else restarted building!
Time Waster
Veteran
Are you in Blackburn by any chance? If so there are 4000 holes there, yours might be one of them!!
Are you in Blackburn by any chance? If so there are 4000 holes there, yours might be one of them!!
Nope, SW Leeds as a mouseover or click on my username would show.
