Mike O'Brien

Heritage Exhibition at Piccadilly

The People of the North Warwickshire Village of Piccadilly were able to re-visit their past at an exhibition in the Community Centre organised by Piccadilly Community Association on Saturday.

Mike O'Brien MP joined the organisers of the exhibition of photographs, memorabilia, old newspapers and memories about the Village of Piccadilly and the nearby collieries, long since closed of Kingsbury and Dexter.

There were photographs of Piccadilly Colliery Homes in 1910, another of the Post War pre-fabricated homes which dominated the Village until they were demolished in the 1960's and replaced with modern brick homes.

Mike O'Brien said "The Piccadilly Community Association have done a tremendous job in bringing together memorabilia about the history of the Village. Last year they put up a monument to former miners with a colliery lamp and bricks to represent each mining family. This year they have run the exhibition. Piccadilly people are rightly proud of their heritage as a mining community."

"When I visited the exhibition on Saturday I enjoyed chatting to Villagers, looking at the old photographs and listening to the stories of what the Village was like in the past. This was really well done."