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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
No 5 looks like a tributary of the Amazon!
Of all the changes in Accy since I was a little squirt, the change to the slopes of The Coppice are up there. Hard to imagine we used to slide down the exposed scarp on bits of cardboard and try to set fire to the grass tussocks everywhere else. Other than a few wind blown hawthorns, there was barely a tree to be seen in those long lost days on the western foothills.
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What you can see is an old metal boundary fence, it is still there and runs for some distance along what I am guessing is the boundary between the old Plantation Mill and the Coppice. As for the trees, the Coppice used to be covered in trees but were lost during the industrial revolution, so the recent plantings have attempted to return the Coppice to its previous state, it also stabilised the front of the area that was slipping off the shale base it is sat on. Incidentally the name Coppice is the practice of cutting back trees to the base to produce long branches for use in things like fencing, so as the name suggests an area of dense managed trees.