Trianglitecture

Behold! – The Great Pyramid of…well, Bilston Glen industrial estate.  It's so incongruous among its neighbours of identikit zinc-clad warehouses and tidy but unprepossessing brick officeblockery that I rather like it.  It's home to a surveying company, who have covered two entire sides in solar panels that produce 85% of all the electricity needed for the facility.  It would be a bit more, but all the little triangular panels are actually pretend because they couldn't get them in that shape.

I was equally curious about the piece of railway track alongside, and spent an hour poring over the old maps.  It isn't exactly where it would've been before, for the entire site of Bilston Glen coal mine that was constructed and sunk in the 1950s was closed less than 40 years later, and the place flattened and landscaped until nothing was left, but its northernmost bit of railway siding would have been parallel, just on the other side of the palisade fence.  It's possible the track is a remnant, but the company does a bit with railways anyway.

Mum and Dad had a pizza voucher for Stewart Brewing who are based in the industrial estate.  I knew there was a cafe of sorts, because a friend had been once, but I had supposed it was just a wee sitooterie and not a complete dinery restaurant and bar.  It has a woodburning stove and everything, and the pizza is great.  I cycled there, as usual, and was rewarded with a free garlic bread for my efforts.  Result!