The Yorkshire Trench - WWI Site Gets Charity Funding

The Yorkshire Trench

Morley Glass & Glazing has pledged £500 to help fund repairs to an important piece of Yorkshire’s World War One heritage. This is the first in donation made available by using money earned from recycling.

Morley is based in Leeds. The contribution to the Yorkshire Trench is its first donation from its GreenVision Fund, where money received from supplying Saint-Gobain Glass with recycled glass cullet is used to support charities and support sustainable projects.

 

49th West Riding of Yorkshire Division

Located just outside the Belgian town of Ypres, The Yorkshire Trench earned its name after it was manned and improved by the 49th West Riding of Yorkshire Division in 1915. The small section of trench is one of the very few World War One front line trenches that still exists in its original position, after being rediscovered by a group of amateur archaeologists in 1992.

Now, a campaign led by Yorkshire historian John Morrison, is seeking to re-instate the site after recent bad weather conditions in Flanders have led to serious damage to the trench, which until recently was accessible to the public.

An initial estimate for repairs is £135,000, part of which will be contributed by the city of Leper, which owns the site. The campaign is crowdfunding the costs via a JustGiving page, which has already amassed over £3,000 in donations.

 

 “Morley Glass is honoured to help preserve the memory of such heroic men. It would be a terrible shame for such an important piece of Yorkshire history to be lost.”

– Ian Short 

Managing Director, Morley Glass & Glazing

 

Joint effort

"Together with our customers we have recycled 318 tonnes of post-consumer waste glass, saving 95,400 tons of CO2 emissions and are looking for more charities and green initiatives to support with the money we receive for the cullet,” adds Morley's Short.

If you would like to make a donation to the Yorkshire Trench restoration fund via the campaign’s JustGiving page - Click Here

 

You can also email for more information -

YorkshireTrench@gmail.com

 

Picture: The Yorkshire Trench.

If you’d like to be considered for a Green Fund donation of £500 email greenvision@morleyglass.co.uk or visit https://www.morleyglass.co.uk/glass-recycling-leeds/

Article written by Cathryn Ellis
02nd February 2021

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