The Coal Miner

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The Coal Miner

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Miner’s statue on county horizon

A Nottinghamshire ‘miner’ looks down over the county.
A £50,000 bronze statue of a miner was put up at the highest point in Nottinghamshire in March 2004 as a memorial to 150 years of mining in the county.
The sculpture of a miner holding a Davey lamp will stand at Silver Wood near Teversal.

The tribute to the coal industry is set on a stone base bearing a plaque listing all the county’s collieries and the years when they opened and closed.

Sculptor Antony Dufort’s work includes the ‘Bowler’ at Lord’s Cricket Club.

With Silverhill being the highest point in Notts, it was decided this would be the best site to have the statue looking out across all of the Nottinghamshire coalfields & would commemorate nearly 150 years of mining across the county.

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  • cherylc1

    cherylc1

    fabulous statue and tribute- wonderful capture- many of my Uncles were coal miners in Michigan’s UP

  • PICMART replied

    Thanks Cheryl!
    My Father was a coal miner,a hard dangerous job back then when he was working in the mines.
    It is a fabulous staute & tribute as you say.
    Martin :-)

  • Luci Mahon

    Luci Mahon

    Fantastic shot Dad!

  • PICMART replied

    Thanks very much Luci!

  • PICMART

    PICMART

    Thanks very much Luci!

  • moonstone

    moonstone

    wow this is great were did you take this pic?

  • PICMART

    PICMART

    Thanks a lot Sue! I took on the Teversal Trail. :-)

  • maxy

    maxy

    My great grandfather was a coal miner! Love the stance of this statue – it’s magnificent work!

  • PICMART replied

    Thanks a lot Maxy & thanks for adding it to your favorites!
    My dad was a miner & it was hard & dangerous work back then in those days.
    Martin. :-)

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