Monument to the workers at the Coventry Colliery & Homefires Plant, Prologis Park, Keresley
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Monument to the workers at the Coventry Colliery & Homefires Plant, Prologis Park, Keresley
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 7 Sep 2021
This monument was erected in 2008 to remember the workers at the Coventry Colliery and the Homefires smokeless fuel plant. It is located on the edge of Prologis Park, a business park that occupies the site of the coal mine. The monument is made out of a pit wheel, one of four that were in use at the mine at the time of its closure in 1991. The wheel formed part of the winding gear that pulled cages from the mine to the surface and lowered them again, carrying coal, equipment and the miners themselves. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_ani_winding_gear.shtml . The shafts of the Coventry Colliery extended 660m below ground level when they were sunk in 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Colliery . For a photo of the monument taken in the year it was erected see here Image
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