Memorials: Miners' Memorial, Conisbrough
Artist: Graham IBBESON
| Artist: | not known |
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| TitleOfWork: | Wharncliffe Woodmoor Mining Memorial | |
| DateOfWork: | 1978 | |
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| Medium: | pitwheel | |
| Location: | Royston, S. Yorkshire | |
| Country: | UK - England | |
| Photographer: | not known | |
| ImageCopyright: | Barnsley MBC | |
| AccessionNumber: | b083a | |
| FileSize: | 1796100 | |
| Location: In a field on the Royston Carlton Boundary Walk. (SE436409) Description: Half a pitwheel emerging from the field, the other half is buried beneath ground level. There is a plaque on the ground by the wheel. Commission: To commemorate a mining accident, 6th August 1936, in which 58 men were killed. [1] Harry Dancer, Chairman of Barnsley MBC's Development and Planning Committee, initiated this scheme which was accepted by this committee on 31 August 1978 and cost £950, approved on 29 September 1978. It was part of reclamation of the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery site on which the monument stands. The contractors, Pugh-Lewis, were based in Chesterfield. The memorial was unveiled by Arthur Scargill, then President of the Yorkshire NUM, in the presence of Roy Mason, MP for Barnsley, and Cllr Dancer. [2] References: [1] Royston and Carlton Boundary Walk leaflet. [2] e-mail dated 7 September 2006 from Archie Sinclair of Barnsley MBC Planning and Transpportation Service With thanks to Archie Sinclair of Barnsley MBC Planning and Transportation Service | ||
