Community groups in Wakefield are being given help to access Heritage Lottery funding.
Wakefield Council have been working with Outwood Community Video Group and Lofthouse Colliery Action Group to produce a heritage trail around Lofthouse Colliery Nature Park.
A grant of £47,000 was secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to create a heritage trail on the site of the old pit, now a local nature park.
The project, which is led by a team of volunteers, focuses on collecting and sharing memories of those who worked at the Lofthouse pit and will begin in the next few weeks.
It will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Lofthouse Colliery disaster.
Members of the Outwood Community Video Group will be recording the memories and experiences of ex-miners and these recordings will be available as an education tools for visitors to the trail.
Coun Maureen Cummings, Wakefield Council’s cabinet member for Environment and Communities, said: “This funding is great news and testament to the hard work the community groups have put in.
“I’m sure residents and visitors to the pit will enjoy the new trail, with its audio clips bringing our local history to life.”
There will be a remembrance service at Outwood Parish Church on Saturday 23, at 1pm to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lofthouse Mining Disaster, followed by a brass band concert at approximately 2pm at Ledger Lane.
There will also be another event on Sunday March 24 at Batley Road Memorial Garden at 3.15pm.
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