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HUNDREDS of people gathered in Yorkshire’s Worsbrough at the weekend for the unveiling of a memorial paying tribute to industries that have now disappeared from the district.
The memorial comprises a dissected pit wheel, a miner, a glassblower and a plinth built from Staffordshire bricks used in the construction of railway bridges and viaducts.
Worsbrough — a town just outside of Barnsley — was originally a cluster of agricultural hamlets and villages. It was transformed by the industrial revolution.
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