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Date:January - December 1958 (c.)
Description:Leacroft Farm stood on Newlands Lane near Heath Hayes. Around 1880 it was bought by the Leacroft Colliery Company and let out to tenant farmers. The building gradually fell into disrepair and was demolished in the first half of the 20th century. Following the closure of Leacroft Colliery in the mid 1960s the area was transformed into an open cast coal mine. From 1969 the mine has been used as a landfill site for commercial and household waste.