Remembering those who paid the price of industrial accidents and diseases

[Peter Munn]

Tree Planting and Dedication 28th April

In an area like ours, very many end up paying the highest price possible
for doing their jobs. In the last reporting year, no fewer than about
300 local people died in industrial accidents or from diseases - such as
the lung diseases suffered by miners and pottery workers alike - that
can be traced to their current or former work.

In memory of all such workers, the North Staffordshire Trades Union
Council is marking a Workers Memorial Day next Wednesday with a tree
planting and dedication outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in
Hanley. All local trade union members are invited to attend the
dedication, as is anyone personally affected. Please pass on the
details to anyone you feel might like to know about it.

Time: Wednesday 28th April 1999 at 12:30 pm.
Location: to the left of the main entrance to the Potteries Museum and
Art Gallery (Bethesda Street, Hanley).
Planting by: the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent designate, Reg Booth.
Dedication by: Reverend Owen, Rector of Hanley and member of the
Potteries and Newcastle Urban Industrial Mission Association.

Further information from Dave Johnson - 'phone 01782 823705 (evenings).

This is the second tree planting. Last year a tree was planted in the
Memorial Gardens, The Boulevard, Tunstall, which everyone is very
welcome to visit.
--
Peter Munn
Newcastle-under-Lyme

[Peter Munn]

Following from my message of Tue, 20 Apr 1999

>
> Tree Planting and Dedication 28th April
>

>In the last reporting year, no fewer than about
>300 local people died in industrial accidents or from diseases - such as
>the lung diseases suffered by miners and pottery workers alike - that
>can be traced to their current or former work.
>
>In memory of all such workers, the North Staffordshire Trades Union
>Council is marking a Workers Memorial Day next Wednesday with a tree
>planting and dedication outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in
>Hanley.

The planting was blessed too by the wonderful sunshine we had today, the
deputy Lord Mayor - before doing his spadework - spoke movingly of it
bringing back how his own father had died of pneumoconiosis, and the new
tree - a spruce - is now taking root in front of the museum, well over
to the left-hand side.

There is no plaque yet, but that should be remedied soon. Significantly,
it is hoped to link it with a permanent, changing, health and safety
exhibition, which I presume will be in the museum foyer, reflecting that
the memory of those who have died should spur us to protect current and
future generations from similar fates.
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