A sculpture is expected to be installed in honor of the Bradford mine near Manchester City Stadium, which is located in the old moat.
Its proximity to Manchester has earned it the “abyss of the city”.
Lauren Murphy, who has been campaigning for a memorial since the death of Alan Evans in 2012, would have been “shocked.”
The mine, which closed in 1968, prospered for more than 350 years and hired another 1,500 people when it closed.
Ms. Murphy, who began her studies at the university well, said her grandfather’s stories about his time at the mine had been the “driving force” of the Bradford Pit project.
She said that while working, “it became transparent that there was very little evidence of the well or network surrounding it in the past.”
This led her to record the memories of 25 former co-workers of her grandfather, reconnecting some of them who had not noticed others for 50 years, for a file at the Manchester Central Library.
He said it was an “amazing and humiliating” delight because they “told wonderful stories of friendships.”
“[But] it is transparent that there was no closure for them when the well was closed and [there was] a strong desire for some kind of physical reminiscence to refer and adhere.”
“I hope the memorial will inspire others to upload more stories and photographs to the archives.”
The 26-foot (8 m) elevator shaft sculpture built and, pending approval of the plans, will be installed later this year along Sir Howard Bernstein Way on the east side of the Etihad campus, near the old well hydrant.
Designer Lucy Gannon said it had been a “privilege” to make Ms. Murphy and the vision of the miners a reality.
She said the monument “allows the viewer to believe that it has been reduced to an underground world under the streets of Manchester.”
Source: Bradford Pit Project
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