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Monument to Arkwright Colliery miners unveiled
A monument to miners who worked in a colliery near Chesterfield has been than 200 people gathered at the monument in Arkwright Town on Saturday following a march that involved a brass installation, a pit wheel set in a stone base, includes the names of 10 miners who died in accidents while working at the colliery before it closed in memorial was commissioned by Sutton-cum-Duckmanton Parish Council to remember all the miners.
Former North Derbyshire National Union of Miners representative John Burrows, attended the thanked the parish council and also ex-miner Brian Hegarty who came up with the idea of the memorial and researched the names of the deceased unveiling comes 30 years after Arkwright Village was relocated in its entirety because of concerns about methane.
