00:01A blue plaque will be unveiled in Wakefield on the 4th of March to honour our historic
00:06engineering firm's contribution to mining. Wakefield Civic Society is marking the legacy
00:11of British Geoffrey Diamond, first established in Normanton in 1897 as the Diamond Coal Cutter
00:18Company. It later merged with the Geoffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, expanding
00:23production across sites, including Stennard Island. At its peak, more than 1,000 people
00:30were employed, and production at Thorns ended in the year 2000 as coal declined. The plaque
00:36will be unveiled at Wakefield Exchange, and organisers say the event's open to anyone
00:40interested in the city's industrial heritage.
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