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The school was situated on the rise at the right (arrowed), the location blocked by the two large trees.
The line angling up behind the trees indicates the road to the mine. Coal was trucked out as well as by train. The
noise of the trucks as they strained up the hill and past the school often drowned out any teaching. In winter the
truck wheels spun off any metal on the hill road and exposed the slick clay beneath, making the hill unclimbable. A
gentler curved approach to the hill was constructed but the noise of the trucks continued until an easier access that
paralleled the railway line was constructed.