Mersey Rivers Trust is working in Wigan to help restore the river environment, which was once altered or destroyed by industry. The project is known as Hey Brook Revival and will form one of the Carbon Landscape Projects – a series of individual projects, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund,…

The £3.2M Heritage Lottery supported Carbon Landscape project was launched on Thursday 28th September at the Astley Mining Museum in Wigan. The Carbon Landscape aims to develop a new community-focused approach to the restoration of a landscape transformed by heavy industries such as coal mining, peat extraction and steel production.…