I WOULD like to express my delight at the work done by the Beath High School pupils in creating that lovely feature at the Lindsay Disaster Memorial site.

I can tell you it would have made Auld Archie Campbell, that great village mining heritage guru, so proud.

It just goes to show you that young people are very interested in the reason that the communities of the Cowdenbeath-Lochgelly area are here.

Every single community has grown through the digging of coal, whether it be the deep mines of the first-half of the 20th century or the opencasting of the later part of the the 20th and early part of the 21st century.

The thing is that the Lindsay Colliery Disaster was one of the great blows to the area's industry with nine men losing their lives and Archie was determined to make sure it was not to be forgotten.

He worked hard to get the memorial feature created on Station Road and now we have this beautifully created rockery by the Beath High pupils and all through a visit by the community council's mining heritage group.

It is great that they do that and I believe they were at the recent Argricultural Show as well which had many hundreds of folk at it so they are spreading the word well about mining history.

The Benarty area has its memorial garden for pit folk as does Cardenden which saw its own terrible disaster at Bowhill Colliery.

As long as we have young people learning about the worth of the coal industry this area mining heritage will stay alive.

LINDSAY ADMIRER,

Beechbank Crescent,

Kelty.