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metal miner installed in 2024 at Tunley Recreational Field (opens the photo full size)
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Metal Miner

Tunley Recreational Field

One of the Trust’s Metal Miners, put up near the sites of old coal mines across North Somerset and Bristol so that people remember there were coal mines here.

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The last metal miner of 2024

Today, we installed the final metal miner of 2024. This miner was installed at Tunley Recreational Field and is number 31 of the total installed so far.

December 2024

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