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Staffordshire Miners' memorial at Apedale. The wheel came from Annesley Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

This morning I took a stroll up the hill to the Staffordshire Miners' memorial at Apedale. The wheel came from Annesley Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

There is a trend towards commemorating collieries by siting a sheave, or often only half a sheave, at the site entrance or on a nearby roundabout. At Pooley Hall Colliery you are presented with the 'Rainbow Sheave of Heritage' which is obviously a most appropriate feature, or maybe not ............ The site is now a country park although the baths and workshop buildings remain in industrial use.