A memorial could be built in a Mansfield park to celebrate the mining heritage of the area and to commemorate the lives lost in Nottinghamshire's pits. The Nottinghamshire Mining Museum has asked Mansfield District Council for support in bringing the memorial forward, with plans for a sculpture close to the existing pit wheel inside the park.
A plaque would also be installed to reference the lives lost in mining, whilst the sculpture itself would celebrate the "significant role" of mining in the life and history of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and Berry Hill Park itself. The historic park was an old facility owned by mining charity CISWO and provided to miners and their families decades ago.
But the charity revealed in 2018 that it could no longer afford the costs of its upkeep before Mansfield District Council stepped in to become corporate trustees a year later. Now the museum wants to use the park’s heritage to commemorate these close links with mining by creating the new memorial.
