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Memorial moved for Audley Mining Remembrance Service.
Audley’s community wanted to move a mining memorial to a better site and thanks to £10,000 from Aspire’s Realise Foundation, their ambition was achieved.
The mining memorial has been relocated from Church Bank to Church Street and as a mark of respect to the miners a memorial took place at St. James’ Church, Church Street Audley at 3pm on Sunday 4th March.
The service is to remember those who perished in mining disasters in the area, as well as to celebrate the hard work and commitment of the miners and their families.
Audley Brass Band will be playing at the service.
The Localities Action Partnership (LAP) was granted £10,000 from the Realise Foundation to renovate the mining memorial and to relocate a mining truck to a site on the Millennium Green.
The inscription on the stone that now holds the wheel was put together by the Audley LAP.
Jane Lancaster, from the LAP said: “The miners’ memorial was in a desperate need of refurbishment. The wheel was coming adrift from its foundations and the structure was generally unsafe.
As coal mining had played such an important part in the history of Audley parish, it was felt that it was important to retain amd repair the memorial and place it in a more prominent position in Church Street.
The project has been completed thanks to the Realise Foundation Will Nixon, trustee of the Realise Foundation: “The memorial is now in a much more appropriate location. I’m proud that the Realise Foundation could play a part in helping local people to achieve this”.
The mining memorial was first erected during the 1990s by one of our local village voluntary groups The Friends of Audley, who were also responsible for many other projects throughout our parish.
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