A BARNSLEY business man is to create a memorial to those who died during one of the town’s blackest chapters of history - and he’s paying for it out of his own pocket.
Former miner James Logan is to create the memorial to mark the 150th anniversary of the Oaks Colliery Disaster which killed 384 men and boys who were working in the pit at Hoyle Mill in 1864.
He plans to place a coal tub on rails three sides of which will be contained by a wall.
The walls will then be covered in tiles each one fired with newsprint to tell the story of the disaster and how it affected the entire town.
The tub will then be filled with coal.
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