You are right. We used to call them the burning bings and they were visible from the A7 at the Gore Glen, just south of the Lady Vic, well into the 1970s. There was a lonely wee concrete shed right in the middle of it (apparently).
"Firefields" was our pet name for the coal slag filled fields- they were definitely there though, as I remember in some Summer months that Edinburgh bound trains had to often slow down to pass the fields, due to the amount of sulpherous smoke belching out of the ground.I wonder if, even nowadays, if there STILL is underground seams burning in the same location.David Grieve (aka Border Collie)
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You are right. We used to call them the burning bings and they were visible from the A7 at the Gore Glen, just south of the Lady Vic, well into the 1970s. There was a lonely wee concrete shed right in the middle of it (apparently).