New statue to mark Barnsley's mining heritage

Sounds like a great idea, better if they put it on the Peel Sq plinth rather than outside the bus station, but still....a statue of a miner at the coal face....I think that's good. But no, it's a statue of a boy! It doesn't look like it's anything to do with mining!
What a missed opportunity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-17169979

 

I don't understand art

because nothing about that represents mining to me. It looks like it belongs outside a nursery school. Either that or it's an advert for Tetris.

It's not just that I don't like it, it actually makes me a little bit angry. I feel like a Daily Mail reader.

 

I quite liked Martin Bullock,why not have a statue of him

 

Who is in charge of the project, Tracey Emin? Nobody will get it. Someone has had a shocker.

 

£165,000 ! I'd like to know how much of the funding comes from the council

 

the lot probably...it's probably another attempt by Mr Houghton's mob to attract people back into town after a series of lengthy meetings held in a top class hotel with no expenses spared.

hth

 

You missed out the bit about them being clowns.

 

Good point well made Mr P 72

 

Most of the funding came from private industry. I think having a statue is a great idea......just not this statue.

 

Statue to mark bad Christmas jumpers.

What an absolute pile of pig *****.

 

WTF is THAT????

absolutely nowt to suggest the heritage of the place at all. What MUPPET sanctioned that then.

 

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I think it must be a minor.

 

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Quality, lost in translation somewhere? Or a typo on a form?

 

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Are the square bits to represent buffering?

What a bag o'bollcoks.

 

Re: Are the square bits to represent buffering?

This is ******* awful. Like someone said earlier it should have been a miner working at the face not a small boy that has nothing to do with our mining heritage. Waste of money. It's making me angry now, stupid council choosing that to represent mining.

 

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Yes and he`s called Maurice.

 

I thought this could be a very early April fools prank news story. What a complete and utter waste of money.

 

that statement sums up the council as a whole really .... i won't add to it.

 

Why is it that whenever we do something important, something that will be there for years, somehhing that NEEDS to be done right, we seem to have a mare in Barnsley? The statue only represents mining in the artistic mind of its creator, not the legions of ordinary folk who will see it daily. You need a guide to comprehend it's meaning. The bus station looked ridiculous at first, and still does in my opinion, that clock near Mandela gardens was bizarre and now we have a silly statue. Ah well.