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First, I would like to apologise to forumites, that have helped and supported the moving of the Statue, for not informing them of today's move. It was decided due to health and safety, common sense and sincerity for Dover's loss, that it should be moved with minimum fuss. I would also like to thank the people of Dover for taking such care of this statue and promise that we will endeavour to give it the same such care and attention.
Vic & others, I am pleased that you all show such passion in wanting to keep the statue in Dover and I certainly understand your feelings but it was commissioned to commemorate all Kent Miners and in its new position it will benefit all Kent Miners.
Andy Cooper,
The "formerly" sums up your thread, we have on from then and the Miners Way Trail gave the miners of Kent a much more appropriate place to site the Statue.
I have to relate this passage to you from a book that was dropped into Fowlmead and written by a former miner. He was a young boy whose father was a wages clerk and spent some of his days at the pit with hi father. One day he noticed a new flag was flying from the pit head. His father explained it was the new NCB flag and meant, they should be better off and now I quote
" nothing's changed, it's got worse. They've given the Division Chairman job to a Rear Admiral who knows nothing whatsoever about coal and they've even given him a plush office looking out over Dover Harbour so that he can sit and watch ships coming and going all day"
Do times change, I sometimes wonder?
The new site will be a place for members of our communities to visit and remember their loved ones and recall memories with the memorial plinth that will be in place soon and visitors will be able to read about our pits and via the Miners Way Trail information board will be encouraged to visit our villages and towns. The statue in its new position will have a big impact for everyone and yes it will be seen and visited by many more people in the future, more than ever before.
We are hoping to have the new site completed very soon. Please come and visit and make your own minds up.
