Coal Miner - Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, Wales.
N 51° 43.105 W 003° 08.001
30U E 490788 N 5729728
A giant sculpture of a Coal Miner standing over 66 feet tall, sited at the former Six Bells Colliery, Wales.
Waymark Code: WMDVW0
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/27/2012
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This sculpture soars above the former colliery site, a 20 meter high giant figure of a coal miner, constructed of more than 20,000 hefty slices of Cor-Ten Steel.
The Coal Miner statue built to commemorate the Six Bells colliery disaster and honour the 45 miners who were killed in a mining accident, near Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, in 1960.
The hope is that as well as remembering those who died, the sculpture will be iconic symbol honouring other Welsh Coal Mining communities.
A steel band around the plinth of the Guardian of the Valleys, Coal Miner sculpture reads :-
" This memorial is dedicated to all the miners who lost their lives on the 28th June 1960. at the Six Bells Colliery, and to coal minning communities every where."
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The Coal Miner Sculpture named The Guardian by artist Sebastien Boyesen, who said he had found the experience of designing and constructing this Coal Miner over the past 18 months "inspiring and moving".
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