Oaks Colliery Disaster 1866 Memorial, Barnsley, UK - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

A bronze figure of a woman holding a child, mounted on a sandstone base. Woman's hair is depicted as a train of coal cascading down behind her. At the lower front of the memorial is the figure of a miner hand hewing coal in a very low seam. To the left of the memorial is a scene depicting cottages with inscribed mine head workings and at the rear of the memorial are inscribed figures in a timeline setting. A halo surrounds the upper area of the figure and is illuminated by LED lighting.


A web site giving details of the disaster-
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There are two other Oaks memorials waymarked in Barnsley-
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Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Oaks Colliery Disaster 1866 Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Graham Ibberson. Forged 2016 Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 7th May 2017 Placed on site. Materials used: Bronze with sandstone base. Location: Church Street, Barnsley, at the side of a large traffic roundabout.

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