Wrexham mines centre demolition: Neville Dickens fined
A Wrexham businessman has been fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,700 costs for partially bulldozing an historic mines rescue centre without permission.
Motor dealer Neville Dickens pleaded guilty to the unauthorised demolition of the listed building on Maesgwyn Road. Two men he employed to carry out the work were also fined.
But the magistrates’ court court was told Dickens, of Gresford, accepted full responsibility for what happened.
The centre was built in 1913 to train miners in how to rescue their colleagues in underground emergencies.
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