Our Open Day at the Senior Citizens Centre on Broadlane Lane, was a great success. We had loads of visitors coming though the doors to see our exhibition. There was over hundred photos on display with hundreds more in our books for visitors to look through. As well as maps and a plan of Great Wyrley cemetery.
We had one visitor, who is part of Burntwood Family History Group – Chris, who came looking for a passed relative who was supposedly been buried in the cemetery, but had been having problems finding them. Our graveyard map gave a full listing of all the people buried there and he was able to locate his relative’s location on the map. After the Open Day, Chris went off in search of the grave and found it at the location we had given him. He thanked us for our help, he had been looking for the burial site for Dionizy Kikolojczyk’s (Frank West), for quite some time.
The display of photos and artefacts was well received by everyone, it showed calculation instruments that was used to calculate planning of the mines.
