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This work depicts a man and a woman returning home with a bicycle after a shift in the town's steelworks during the 1940s. It is set on a large square granite plinth.

Title

Scunthorpe Steelworkers

Date

2018

Medium

Corten steel

Accession number

DN15_IM_S001

Acquisition method

funded by public donations

Work type

Statue

Custodian

North Lincolnshire Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

3rd November 2018

Access

at all times

Inscription description

SCUNTHORPE STEELWORKERS SCULPTURE / Dedicated to all past and present steelworkers and their families from Scunthorpe and the surrounding areas / For those who spent their working lived keeping the steel production flowing through the Second World War / To their contribution to the war effort, the British economy and to the building of this town / To those who were injured or lost their lives in service on the steelworks / This is a debt that can never be repaid but will never be forgotten. / SCULPTOR – RAY LONSDALE

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