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Roger - I knew that Highley had been a mining village but didn't know it closed so recently, well Alveley at least. Still trying to get my head round those upcast shafts, one was used for coal hauling. The three mines I have been down the upcast was used, apart from ventilation, as service shaft for men etc. when the downcast was being used for coal traffic. Can't think of Highley without remembering Lesley Whittle, the kidnap victim of Donald Neilson (The Black Panther).
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