Photos by Richard Fox - 27th November 2006

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Images 1 to 21 show the closure of a real sett in the village of Weir near Bacup on the 27th November 2006.
This work was authorised and licensed by English Nature under Badger Licence No 20062548.

Richard Fox 1 Site before removal of sheds	Richard Fox 2 Demolition of Wooden shed	Richard Fox 3 Removing the wooden floor of the shed	Richard Fox 4 Sliding out the floor of the shed

Richard Fox 5 Tunnels exposed by the removal of the shed	Richard Fox 6 Removal of the metal shed	Richard Fox 7 Checking the cleared sett site for tunnels	Richard Fox 8 Preparing to dig deeper under the cleared shed site

Richard Fox 9 Digging deeper underneath the shed site	Richard Fox 10 Digging over the tunnel on the lane side	Richard Fox 11 Digging out between the lane and the lane	Richard Fox 12 Checking the length of the easterly tunnel

Richard Fox 13 Checking the length of the northerly tunnel	Richard Fox 14 Starting partial infilling of the old tunel	Richard Fox 15 Infilling the Laneside bank	Richard Fox 16 Partial infilling over the former sheds

Richard Fox 17 Tidying up the reinstated laneside area	Richard Fox 18 Laying mesh over the sites of the old sheds	Richard Fox 19 Binding the mesh together on the laneside	Richard Fox 20 Final infilling over the mesh

Richard Fox 21 Completed Project

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