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The upper half of a figure working on an angled ladder, which has steps only towards its top.

Title

Rock Driller

Date

2016

Medium

bronze & steel

Accession number

B69_RA_S107

Acquisition method

commissioned by Birmingham Canal Navigation Society

Work type

Statue

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

November 2016

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

near the base of one of the ladder's legs: Made by L. Perry of IHS Monuments

Inscription description

along the side of the left leg of the ladder, reading downwards: The Devil made Coal. Made it black like his heart and hid it in the deepest recesses of the earth that he would drive man mad in the finding of it; along the side of the right leg of the ladder, reading upwards: The Rock Driller depicted here would once have worked beneath your feet at the close by Nine Apostles Colliery which ceased to mine by (??); on a stone plaque set into the brick base: IN MEMORY OF / MARIE SMITH / NEE BEASLEY / 1922–2015 / LOVER OF / CANALS / & INDUSTRIAL / HISTORY

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