Between town and country - Country diary, 18 November 1918

18 November 1918 Within a few yards of the pitheads and polluted streams ploughing is well on its way Many parts of these islands would be troublesome to classify if one allowed only the two divisions of town and country. There are miles upon miles in Durham and in Derbyshire and South Wales and here in Lanarkshire which certainly are not town miles, and almost as certainly not country; at least not "pure country." For great heaps of slag rear their unnatural straight lines above the fields and great chimneys belch forth smoke and fire and the streams are polluted. Yet within a few yards of the great-works and of the pitheads ploughing is well on its way and the bloomy furrows lie with the frost daintily picking them out. Related: Villagers fight to keep their slag-heap: archive, 4 February 1957 Continue reading...