The IVMP have been given permission to place the Pendleton Colliery Memorial Bench in the church grounds. The unveiling will take place at 1PM n Saturday 2nd November 2024. A big thank you to all who donated money for the bench and I hope to see you all on the Read more…
We have been granted a faculty/authorisation to place the bench in the church ground of St. Thomas. In consultation with the church, we will arrange a date to install an unveil the bench. A big thanks to Father Daniel Burton and Lee Cravenand all at St. Thomas
We are currently extending the Agecroft Memorial Garden which will be ready by Springtime.
The 2022 workers international memorial remembrance day will be on Saturday 23rd April. We will assemble 12:45pm at the Agecroft miners monument. Join us to remember all the coal miners who died or were injured in the local coal mines and throughout the world.
St Thomas church, Pendleton have kindly given the IVMP permission to erect a monument to remember the former pit.The monument will contain a bench and a list of the coal miners who died in the pit.The memorial will be placed in the church grounds, we will be working with local Read more…
A massive thank you to all who attended the commemoration event on Saturday 5th February, the weather was truly appalling wet and windy. The plaques unveiled give due recognition to the children, women and men who died in the colliery from the 1840’s to the 1920’s. Once and again thank Read more…
We will be unveiling 2 plaques on Saturday 5th February 2022. We will assemble at 12:45 at the Agecroft colliery memorial on Agecroft Road (former pit entrance).93 names are on the plaques which include women and children who died in the colliery from the 1840’s to the 1920’s. Please come Read more…
On Thursday the 18th June we held a small gathering to remember the 178 men and boys who died in the Clifton hall colliery disaster. It was the 135 anniversary of the tragedy which devastated the communities of Pendlebury, Clifton, Pendleton and the surrounding local areas.We had the gathering at Read more…
We would like to invite you all to the Remembrance day 2 minute silence to remember the local miners who died in the first world war 1914-1919. We will be assembling at the war memorial on Agecroft road at 10:45 on Monday 14th November.Hope to see you all there.
Ivmp will be attending the Salford histories festival with the mining exhibition Saturday 22nd September . The event opens at 10am and closes 5pm. Free to attend history stalls, cafe, talks and lots of great local history memorabilia books. Remembering Salford great history.Hope united reform chapel, Chapel street, Salford next Read more…