General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Jo Anne, I was project manager of this project and designed the setting including the paving and all the technical foundations that you don't see under the ground. My good friend and artist Steve Winterburn sculpted the statues. The event brought tears to many people. It is wonderful that we now have a memorial and reminder of our industrial past, and the hardship of all the people who toiled, women children and men. We were at the ceremony on Saturday and at the reception afterwards. I was humbled (and stunned) to be presented with a small bronze sculpted bust of the Wigan pit brow lass.