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ArtistMaker: not known
TitleOfWork: Wharncliffe Woodmoor Mining Memorial
DescriptionOfPhoto:
DateOfCreation: 1978
Dimensions:
Medium: pitwheel
Location: In a field on the Royston Carlton Boundary Walk. (SE436409)
AtoZReference: p.9 5E
Postcode:
Street: Carlton Road (nearest road)
TownOrVillage: Carlton
AreaInTown:
MetropolitanBorough: Barnsley
Photographer: not known
ImageCopyright: Barnsley MBC
AccessionNumber: b083a

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 Transportation Service

Photograph and information courtesy of Archie Sinclair of Barnsley MBC Planning and Transportation Service





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