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Title
Pit Lad with Pony
Date
2003
Medium
iron & concrete
Accession number
NE24_SD_S011
Acquisition method
commissioned by Blyth North Farm Residents and Community Association; part financed by Banks Group Community Fund
Work type
Sculpture
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on plaque: This community garden and memorial / was constructed by local children / in 2003 / It is now dedicated to the memory of every one of the many thousands of miners who spent all their working lives / in the mumerous deep mines of Blyth. / Between the years 1793 and 1986 / 'Our inspiration for a better future'; on plaque: This facility was financed from / The Banks Community Fund / BANKS / The Banks Group / DEVELOPMENT WITH CARE; on stone on the ground: MINERS MEMORIAL / GARDEN / It's an aaful lang way ti thi coal fyece / Where its black dark an clammy an wet. / An from thi dim orange light from ya pit hat, / Ti dig ya seam oot as far as yill get. / mind the stink from bad air an the Gallowas / Seeps reet through ya clayse ti ya skin, / Aay a worked all me life at youn pit heed, / But aad hate ti gan doon by again.
Temple Avenue, Blyth
NE24 5ET
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