00:00My name is Steve Brunt. I'm an ex-coalface worker from Archerite Colliery. I worked here for 11 years, nine and a half of those on the coalface. I'm here because, along with lots of other former Archerite miners who've been here today, to remember, to commemorate and to celebrate this magnificent memorial.
00:22It's going to be absolutely brilliant. Two ventures are going to go in, one either side, so people can come and reflect and think, and think about past loved ones, including those 10 men whose names are etched on that memorial.
00:38Yeah, roughly three years ago, a miner from Archerite, used to work on coalface at Archerite, a very good friend of mine, Brian Eckarty, approached the Sutton Conductment and Parish Council, a guy called Ciaran Payne, a young fella, called Ciaran Payne, with the idea of putting this memorial up.
00:58It did, obviously, lots of debate, lots of discussions, but today is the fruition of those discussions and debates, and we've got here a magnificent memorial, remembering the colliery, and of course, everybody at the colliery who worked at the colliery, but in particular, the 10 men that sadly lost their lives.
01:20In its short life, 1938 to 1988, it was just open for 50 years. Mind I add, the first colliery to be sunk on this site was in 1897. That was a shaft mine, and it was not far from where we stood, and that's where the name Wangum comes from, because the drift mine wasn't really known as Wangum Colliery, but the shaft mine was.
01:47And the specific detail of that is, is because they use wagons for the colliery, not tubs, and Wangum slang for wagons, that's the Derbyshire dialect for it.
