Husb and I went to a demonstration this evening, to protest against the plans to erect a “Skyline” zipwire complex on Swansea’s iconic Kilvey Hill. When I was a kid, the hill was completely black, not a thing grew there, it was dead, killed by the Industrial Revolution. Then in the early 1960s, Swansea University began the “Lower Swansea Valley Project” to experiment with reclaiming industrial wasteland. It was a phenomenal success and in 60 years the hill has become a beautiful wooded nature reserve, full of streams, ponds and wildlife. But it’s now under threat from a massive commercial development and local people are organising protests to keep the reclaimed hill as nature intended. Some of the protestors gathered outside the council meeting this evening to sing protest songs while others went in to voice their objections. I scribbled them.
Here’s a short film of what the area was like before and after being reclaimed.
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Bloomin zip wires. Someone out to make some money providing cheap thrills for some while ruining the environment for everyone else.
That sums it up!