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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

We used to go swimming in the old quarry off Burnley Road - the water was a bright green as I remember it - don't know about the Green Howarth quarry but I remember Red Shale, I think it was on the way up to Spire Farm, past Arden Hall. Remember being told that it was a very poor coal seam that had ignited and gradually burnt away - anyone know anything about it?

The Red Shale, was next to Slate Pits Farm off Plantation Lane, turn left at the top of Plantation Lane, then round behind the old Plantation Mill, and it was visible on your left.
All that disappeared when the Easterly Bypass was built.
The redness in shales is usually associated with iron oxides.

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