Daw Mill Mining Memorial
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Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 2 Nov 2022
Warwickshire never had a high profile as a mining county compared with the likes of Yorkshire, Durham or Glamorgan. Yet it was important right to the end - Daw Mill was one of the very last deep coal mines in Britain to close. It finally did so in 2013, a year earlier than planned due to an underground fire, with the loss of about 650 jobs. In 2017 one half of one of the pit wheels was erected as a memorial here in the middle of a traffic roundabout on the edge of Ansley village. Mining is a just a memory now in these parts but not one that will be easily forgotten. See this YouTube video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JfQNORlvb0.
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