County Durham, UK. 22nd November, 2015. A six feet tall miner sculpture has been unveiled in the former pit village of Horden on the East Durham coast. The sculpture is the work of the South Hetton based artist, Ray Lonsdale, and with the title “I Ain’t Gonna Work On Maggies Farm No More”, it represents how mining closures ripped the heart out of villages and towns across East Durham and beyond. Credit: alan sill/Alamy Live News
A six feet tall miner sculpture has been unveiled in the former pit village of Horden on the East Durham coast The sculpture is the work of the South Hetton based artist, Ray Lonsdale, and with the title “I Ain’t Gonna Work On Maggies Farm No More”, it represents how mining closures ripped the heart out of villages and towns across East Durham and beyond. In the body of the sculpture they is in fact a large gaping hole where a heart should have been, testament of the issues that the mining strike of 1984 left in mining communities devasting families that had releied on the industry The sculutpre was bought for £19,000 by contributions by county councillors, June Clark and Paul Stadling from their neighbourhood budgets. The art work will have a permanent potion in the Horden Welfare park, with residents already christening the art work “Marra”, a word used in mining communities to describe work mates
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