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Title

Miners' Memorial

Date

1997

Medium

bronze

Accession number

KY4_AH_S018

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

Statue

Owner

Kelty Community Council

Custodian

Kelty Community Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

plaque affixed to the plinth: IN MEMORY OF ALL THE MEN / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / IN THE KELTY COLLIERIES; panel set into the floor adjacent to the statue: 2007 / 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE / LINDSAY PIT DISASTER / 14TH DECEMBER 1957; poem incised into a circular floor panel: Now the tips / are grassed and green / it’s [sic] slag and stone are now unseen / no sign of blood, of pain or grief / that lies there buried underneath / nothing, nothing to show / unless you know / of those sad days / so long ago

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