Description:
The sculpture has an overall height of 8m comprising a steel tower of four lengths of 80mm box section, painted red, fixed to a quarried slab of local red sandstone. 

The tower is meant to evoke a sense of the deep mine shaft, with a small, 250x400x700mm carved group of miners set within the shaft as if descending in the cage. 

Commission Title: Memorial Sculpture -Northern United Colliery

Sculptors:
Philip Bews and
Diane Gorvin

Production Period:
March - June 1999

Site:
Northern United
Colliery Site, Cinderford

Production Method:
The steel work was fabricated, painted and installed by Remnant Engineering to Phil’s design.

Phil carved three miners in high relief in the local sandstone block retaining the block like form of the stone, Diane carved the fourth miner in low relief.