Lottery £700,000 for mine project
Friday 22nd January 2010, 11:30AM GMT.
Dudley’s historic Seven Sisters mines will be opened up to the public after a six-figure Lottery grant was announced today.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has released more than £700,000 towards the £1.1 million total cost of the works. A new visitor and learning centre will also be created at the Wrens Nest National Nature Reserve which links to the mines.
The project is expected to start in May after the funding boost. The HLF spent five months assessing the plans before revealing its decision today. It is the first stage of a wider project to open up a maze of mines which has been mothballed after missing out on a £50m People’s Millions Lottery jackpot.
Dudley Council’s cabinet member for environment and culture, Councillor David Stanley, welcomed today’s news, saying the grant would help create a “world class” centre.
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Is the centre that important! the money could be spent on better thing’s, investing in scheme’s to create work, employment and to give some solidarity back into the area, We all need retraining for a future not the times we live in now.
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Tut ! Tut ! Who’s Dudleybashing now?
Let’s be fair Dudley is in such a mess generally that it is hard to know where to start.Put any party in the mess will still be there.
But I was personally very pleased with one surprise a few months back-the computers were renewed in Stourbridge library.
It’s little streams that make great rivers.
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I have to agree the tory council have done such a bad job of dudley in general
everything they seem to touch is a desaster
wasting taxpayers money moving down the town down Brierley hill next to merry hill what a joke! i for one will never use this town they propose
I think the wrens nest should be all demolished and turned back to shrubland i do welcome this lottery money
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