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Originally Posted by MargaretR
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They are amazing
I wish I could do that!
I wonder how they managed to make it without people hearing the sound of the whatever they used to cut it?? :S ?? I like that the maker/makers are anonymous aswell.
I've always understood the Coppice had trees planted to stop a landslide. My dad has a few pictures somewhere of what it looked like before trees were planted there.
He says he prefers it without trees and could run up to the top and back to his house again with my grandma looking out the back window on Burnley road and she could see him go all the way up because there were no trees at all then. This is going back 40< years.
I wish the Coppice was entirely unspoilt, but whenever I go up and walk around the back to the reservoirs they always have rubbish/litter everywhere around the edge. It would be good if someone, even community police officers could walk about it every now and again to guard it.
There is the Venus and Cupid sculpture in Morecambe that is said to be in memory of those lost at sea, including the cockle pickers:
Bay Views: Venus and Cupid, Morecambe Promenade
I personally think it would have been better suited to where it was originally supposed to be placed (St Georges Quay Lancaster), as I think that having it as a tribute, when it was not originally designed to be a tribute is stretching it a bit........ throwing in a reason after it was made, rather than being made for that reason.
Useful definition of Kopje, thanks
Sonnart