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This innovative, unusual monument of a miner was created in 2010 to commemorate the 1960 Six Bells mining disaster in which 45 men lost their lives. The 20m steel sculpture overlooks Parc Arael Griffin, the site of the Six Bells Colliery. The miner, with outstretched arms and weathered steel skin, blends with the surrounding hillsides, evoking the embedded tragic realities of this area’s industrial past. Read the names of the miners lost in the accident and a poem recalling the day it happened, just beyond the sculpture, by the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke (b. 1937).
Poem - copyright Gillian Clarke
The Guardian - Six Bells Mining Memorial Sculpture, Abertillery
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- Region : South East Wales
- Grid Ref : SO 22075 03084
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This innovative, unusual monument of a miner was created in 2010 to commemorate the 1960 Six Bells mining disaster in which 45 men lost their lives. The 20m steel sculpture overlooks Parc Arael Griffin, the site of the Six Bells Colliery. The miner, with outstretched arms and weathered steel skin, blends with the surrounding hillsides, evoking the embedded tragic realities of this area’s industrial past. Read the names of the miners lost in the accident and a poem recalling the day it happened, just beyond the sculpture, by the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke (b. 1937).
Poem - copyright Gillian Clarke
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