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My husband confused my mother the other day by saying that children when he was a boy used to try and get coal from the pit bing without getting caught or burnt. I told my mum it was another name for the slag heap and that name she knew. My mothers granny Olive lived in the mining towns of the Welsh Valleys and my husband grew up in the mining areas in West Lothian, Scotland hence the confusion. What do other people call the waste coal pile?

West Midlands a slag heap :-D

Always knew them as slag heaps, Tawny, and I'm originally from Manchester :-)

Sounds like it might just be us Scots then that call it a bing.

Like Allan, I'm from the Manchester area, and we knew it as slag heap.

My brother's wife was born in Scotland, near Greenock, and she also said slag heap ................ though she had lived in the Greater Manchester area from about the age of 10.

The area where she lived used to be considered as in Cheshire, but now seems to be included in Tameside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire :-S

I'm welsh always known them as slag heaps (now living in Scotland).

I'm welsh always known them as slag heaps (now living in Scotland).

I'm welsh always known them as slag heaps (now living in Scotland).

That was quite an emphatic statement, ShelleyRose :-D :-D