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The statue commemorates the area’s mining history and pays tribute to all those who died between 1896 and when the pit closed on 30th April 1993. According to the artist, the work ‘shows the miner as though he is carving from the rock face, as if sculpting out the future of his family. The mother and child are emerging above the coal face as though the family are at one with the land and the coal’.

Title

Shirebrook Mining Memorial

Date

2023

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 457 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

NG20_HC_S160

Acquisition method

paid for and funded by ex-miners and the community

Work type

Monument

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

30th April 2023

Access

at all times

Inscription description

SHIREBROOK MINING MEMORIAL / DEDICATED TO THE MINING COMMUNITIES OF SHIREBROOK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA / THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY / MR ALAN GASGOYNE AND MRS BEVERLEY HENDERSON ON SUNDAY 30 APRIL 2023 / BEING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLOSURE OF SHIREBROOK COLLIERY / SHIREBROOK MEMORIAL COMMITTEE (NAMES) / WITH THANKS TO MEMORIAL MODELS (NAMES) / SPECIAL THANKS TO JESSICA HINCHLEY / KIRSTY WILSON THMAS / CREATED BY SCULPTOR PETER WALKER; remaining plaques include names contributors / donors and the names of those who worked at the colliery and those Killed.

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