General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

On 5th September 1936, there was a report in The Wigan Observer :

"installation of machine to do work of pit brow lasses at Pemberton Colliery, last pit in Wigan to employ pit brow girls."

Local Chronology 1936

But a pit brow lass will be seen again in Wigan soon.

A life sized sculpture will be placed near the Wigan Pier Tippler, on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal towpath.
With her will be a panel to tell of the hard work of the ‘Lasses’ and of the scandal that they caused in Victorian society by wearing trousers.

Wigan Pier Quarter’s Historic Sculptures will also include:

a bargee, mill worker and a boat builder.

The hope of organisers is that the sculptures will provide a means to celebrate Wigan's rich industrial past and become mini-attractions in their own right.

I worry about the risk of vandalism to the sculptures though.
A number of windows in the Trencherfield Mill building have been smashed for a while.