Husb and I popped along to an event in Swansea’s City Centre on Saturday, drawing attention to the proposed Skyline development on Kilvey Hill, which is a much loved and valuable nature reserve reclaimed from industrial pollution. This Green Man turned up. He was very tall. And leafy.
When I was little, the hill was completely black, nothing 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.
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