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The Anderton Shearer Mining Memorial

Stood outside the National Coal Board regional headquarters, Anderton House in Lowton (where Ridgeway and Tarnway now stands), it was erected in 1965 when Anderton House was opened. The old Golborne UDC were proud of it and featured it in the Official handbook.

Reproduced from the Golborne Handbook (NCB Photos)

Anderton House with monument in the foreground.

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Today the monument stands on a road island in St.Helens

Close up The monument is beat viewed from the rear car park of PC World

St.Helens MBC have located it on this island on the busy Ravenhead link road which is a good way of keeping it free of vandelism. We still think it should have been returned to it's home in Lowton but think of all the vandelism if it was placed on McDonnalds roundabout.

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Anderton Mining Monument

Region ID	LL
Work ID	265
Manual Reference	MSSH0006
Type	Sculpture
Title	Anderton Mining Monument
Sculptor	Fleishmann, Arthur
Date of design	before 1965
Year of unveiling	1998?
Unveiling details
Road	Cannington Roundabout, Linkway (East?)
Precise Location	Cannington Roundabout near City Centre and Ravenhead Pit
A to Z Ref	38 4A?
OS Ref
Postcode
Work is	Extant
Listing Status	Don't know
Duty of Care	St Helens Borough Council
Commissioned by	Lord Robens
Notes

Miner and shearer loader machine. Head, hands and upper body of miner emerge out of cutting drum. The hands are holding a piece of coal. Four blades of cutting drum (part of shearer loader machine) are represented.
Commissioned by Lord Robens (date?) First erected in 1965 by the North West Division of the National Coal Board at Anderton House in Lowton, Lancashire. Marked the invention of the Anderton Shearer cutter/loader which was first used in St Helens. In 1989 it was moved to Eastwood Hall in Nottingham and was then installed in its current position in December 1998. Installation costs were funded by the Southern Corridor Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) which is managed by the Ravenhead Renaissance Partnership.On behalf of the Ravenhead Renaissance Partnership, the Groundwork Trust submitted the planning application to St Helens Borough Council.
1) James Anderton, inventor of the Anderton shearer and loader machine 2) Shearer-loader (Used in coalmines worldwide, the first shearer-loader was installed at the Ravenhead Colliery's Rushy Park seam in 1952, then used at Cronton Colliery, St Helens, and Golborne Colliery, Leigh. 3) Mining community (represented in the body of the miner)
circa
raw year	1998?
Condition	Don't know
At risk	Not at risk
Inscriptions
Signatures

Elements

Element Details

Part of work	Material	Dimensions
Bust	Bronze

Cutting drum	Steel

Spiral around base	Fibreglass

Piece of coal	Fibreglass

Assessment of Condition

Surface Character: nothing recorded

Structural Condition: nothing recorded

Vandalism: nothing recorded

Golborne Monument (2006)

Located at the start of Kid Glove Road the site of Golborne Colliery

Erected March 2006

On Sunday, March 19 the Rector of Golborne the Rev Robert Williams officiated at a service in Kidglove Road at what was the entrance to Golborne Colliery beside the inscribed memorial stone.

The service was attended by ex-miners and their families the event was the fruition of two years of fund-raising to erect the six feet by three feet stone which was commissioned in memory of men and women who died and worked at Golborne Colliery which opened in 1880 and closed in 1989.

The memorial was the idea of Golborne Ex-MIners Association who staged a series of concerts to help towards the cost of the stone. Also funding was received from a community chest grant from Wiggin Council, Alpla (UK) Ltd of Golborne and The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.

On line since 1997

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Golborne Monument (2006)