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My grandfather was a coal miner and lived in Radcliffe Terrace in the 1920's. I am hoping to visit next year but there does not appear to be much left of Radcliffe village to see.
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Pretty much all gone unfortunately, the site of the terraces is now agricultural fields. Some of the forum members have some nice photos on here if you click the 'All Albums' link above. Pictures 29 to 34 in the
Forsyth Image Collection also show some of the village.
I'm rather ashamed to say we don't have a heritage centre for visitors like yourself to come to. Our communities have been erased from the surface of the earth by opencast mining and none of the profit from that activity has been invested locally to preserve and promote the history of what they destroyed in any sort of focused way. 'The powers that be' are only into retail and overpriced housing.