A view of the Spikes - the Henry Daley Memorial Garden - at the Nature Park, Spring 1998. When the nature park was a still a working colliery, there were terraced cottages on the Crofton side of the pit known as the Spike or Spike Island. Ings Cottages, to give these houses their official name, were demolished shortly before the pit itself was finally closed in 1979.
Photographed by John Sargent in 1998.

The row of houses just visible in the distance to the right is Chevet Terrace in the  Woodyard.  Two shafts from the pit were located in the area of the terrace.  The shafts proved to be almost the last resting place of a Walton villager - they were used to hide the body of Emma Sheard.   Unfortunately for the perpetrator of the deed,  the old lady's remains were discovered in 1948 after her manslaughter some years earlier by her grand niece, Winifred Hallaghan.   More details in Peter Wright's interesting book. (see Links)