Re: The Coppice/Air raid shelter
The Air raid Shelter on the Coppice is definately there. I remember as a kid going up the Coppice with my mates and playing in the air raid shelter. This is when there was no trees. It is located on the west side of the hill about half way up and as you look from it towards Accrington you would be more or less looking straight down Bold St. I can assure you that it is still there. When I mentioned it to my 13 year old son he told me that he had been up to it recently and that it was flooded. I do remember as a kid that inside there was a spring running through it behind a retaining wall. The room measured about 10 foot square. Perhaps it only floods when we get heavy rain.
As for the Gamblers Caves I was up there last summer and the big cave was still there but the small one had been filled in. The quarry work had finished 3 years ago, so I guess the big cave is still there.
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Last edited by disco; 03-05-2005 at 20:51.
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