End of an Era As Pit Baths Now Face the Bulldozer ; Regeneration Chiefs Are Poised to Close the Book On a Chapter of Mining History After Developers Pulled Out of Plans to Bring a Former Colliery Site Into the 21st Century.

Western Daily Press › June 05, 2008

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Regeneration chiefs are poised to close the book on a chapter of mining history after developers pulled out of plans to bring a former colliery site into the 21st century.

Last-ditch plans to create a diving centre at the Princess Royal pithead baths have been dropped after the developer decided the scheme was too costly.

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End of an Era As Pit Baths Now Face the Bulldozer ; Regeneration Chiefs Are Poised to Close the Book On a Chapter of Mining History After Developers Pulled Out of Plans to Bring a Former Colliery Site Into the 21st Century.

Now the bulldozers are likely to move in and flatten the baths and allow the site, which once hummed with the sounds of industry, to disappear into the ancient Forest of Dean.

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