March arrived, and Springtime had definitely landed with bulbs flowering, and sunshine blazing down on a small band of regular volunteers arriving on site to get busy in the garden.
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Year: 2025
Late great starts – February 2025
After several false starts due to the weather in January, and only the stoic efforts of our regular volunteer Paul braving the elements with several small groups up until now, regular volunteers finally returned to site on Saturday 22nd February 2025 to ‘begin’ the year. And what a lovely day!
Continue reading2024 into 2025. Autumn Fantasia and the long winter.
2025 is here. There’s no denying. But the weather outside has been less-than-delightful, so we’re starting off by looking back – A more detailed catch-up from Autumn of 2024, with late touches of Winter frost which somewhat delayed the start of 2025.
But first, a great big thank you!
To all our volunteers, visitors, supporters and friends. Without your support the Friends would not be able to keep doing their great work in maintaining and sharing the colliery site and its stories with the wider public.
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Friends of Hemingfield Colliery 