I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but I believe the demolished Swarland Tce houses, which were mostly, if not all, colliery upstairs and down flats. In the 70's when opencast was commenced to the West of Red Row the houses stared showing signs of instability. One story I heard was that the opencast had disturbed flooded old workings which caused movement so affecting the properties. whether this was the fact or not it is an interesting theory.
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