File:Here be clouds - geograph.org.uk - 1754303.jpg
Original file (1,024 × 768 pixels, file size: 517 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Summary
[edit]
| Description |
English: Here be clouds Which appeared from nowhere and so close you could almost touch them. The flat plateau is not natural, it was landscaped after the open cast coal mining operation of the 1980s ceased.
Bill Gracie in his 'History of Banton' (pub.1995; by Banton and Kelvinhead Community Council) remarked: "In the mid 1960s, a large scale open cast operation was started which, over a period of years, removed hundreds of thousands of tons of brown blaes for use in brick making from the west side of the glen (the "Biling Glen") above High Banton. In addition to the inconvenience of heavy lorries passing through the village at regular intervals the beauty of a fine glen was destroyed and the hillside left with ugly scars which nature will never quite disguise". He went on to say; "It is unfortunate that Stirling County Council did not give more consideration to the local environment when granting planning permission nor lay down stricter conditions over landscaping and general tidying up of the area once operations were complete." Fifteen years since writing the above a visit to the glen will say he has been proved right. |
| Date | |
| Source | From geograph.org.uk |
| Author | BJ Smur |
| Camera location |   | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap |  |
|---|
_heading:270.00&language=en){kind=link}
| Object location | | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | |
|---|
_heading:270.00&language=en){kind=link}
Licensing
[edit]
|
This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by BJ Smur and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 23:09, 5 March 2011 | | 1,024 × 768 (517 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Here be clouds Which appeared from nowhere and so close you could almost touch them. The flat plateau is not natural, it was landscaped after the open cast coal mining operation of the 1980s ceased. |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
