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The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial
The Miners Memorial

© Graham Ibbeson. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Helen Chester / Art UK

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A twice life-size standing figure of a miner holding a pick axe, on top of a giant miners lamp. On the lamp are scenes showing a couple holding their baby, children playing with a hoop, miners digging and a pit pony pulling a cart laden with coal out of a mine. A second miner is shown crawling on his hands and knees digging in the ground beneath the lamp. The memorial commemorates the people who worked at Hucknall No. 2 Colliery, Ashfield, from 1868 until 1986. A large supermarket is now situated on the site of Hucknall No. 2 Colliery, which was commonly known as the Bottom Pit. Surrounding the statue are three boulders. These have sawn-cut faces at the front, and the name of the pit and dates carved into the top of each stone with a plaque beneath listing the names, year and age of the mining casualties.

Title

The Miners Memorial

Date

2005

Medium

bronze & sandstone

Measurements

H 600 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

NG15_HC_S116

Acquisition method

commissioned by Ashfield District Council

Work type

Statue

Owner

Ashfield District Council

Custodian

Ashfield District Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

25th June 2005

Access

at all times

Inscription description

on lamp: MINERS WELFARE COM / FELLOWSHIP / EDUCATION / SOCIAL / COMMUNITY; plaque: Hucknall no. 2 Colliery / Ashfield / This statue was / commissioned by Ashfield District Council / to commemorate the people who worked at / the colliery from 1868 until 1986. / The statue was created by / Graham Ibbeson M. A. (R.C.A.) Sculptor / and unveiled on 25th June 2005 by / Chairman of the Council, Councillor Charles Short. / Funded by contributions from Tesco / and Nottingham County Council. / Cast by AB Fine Art Foundry, London; around the base: HUCKNALL; boulder: HUCKNALL NO.1 COLLIERY / 1861 / 1943 / (names); boulder: HUCKNALL NO.2 COLLIERY / 1865 / 1986 / (names); centre boulder: LINBY COLLIERY / 1873 / 1988 / (names)

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Located at

Station Road, Hucknall, Ashfield

NG15 7TQ

Near the supermarket.