My idea for a mining heritage statue............

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  1. Young Nudger

    Young Nudger Well-Known Member

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    Would be an eight foot tall miner stood with his arms above his head holding and looking at a girder above him.
    The miner would be wearing pit boots, socks, shorts, miners lamp and battery and self rescuer.
    On that girder, front and back, would be the name 'Barnsley'. This would symbolise that mining has been the main support for the economics of Barnsley for over 100 years.

    The statue would be on the plinth in the town centre.

    The present design...........the 'square block kid' can only be discribed as dreadful !!!
     
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    One of the rare occasions that I agree with you!
     
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    In total agreement.

    Going for a lie down.
     
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    You see it's not too difficult to design is it.


    Yet we get arsey,up themselves designers and sculptors who have no clue yet think they can justify being paid thousands for making a pigs ear out of something that should be quite staight forward.
     
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    I still can't get my head around how they have got it so wrong.
     
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    Because they think about themselves more than they do the people and the history.
     
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    Wasn`t he commissioned to design the pigs ear for Sheffield Council.
     
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    For me, that sounds perfect

    Well said, Nudger.
     
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    That actually sounds very good. God knows why they've overcomplicated this one!
     
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    Exactly that, except....

    ....instead of "Barnsley" on the girder I would have it saying "Super Red Yorkshire Tykes".
     
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    Re: Exactly that, except....

    And wearing a Tory Rosette.
     
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    write to the chronicle with this idea Nudge..and get a petition up.

    that statue of yours sound much better..and I think more folk would like that than this bewildering nonsense thats been trotted out at the moment.
     
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    Yep young nudgers idea needs forwarding to the powers that be showing how something they've got so wrong could have been so right
     
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    Get writing to your MP and councillors, I emailed them yesterday about this.
     
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    A detailed depiction of the artwork in the sculpture celebrating the heritage of mining in Northern Ontario.

    [video=youtube;fSfcW_hCOmE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSfcW_hCOmE[/video]
     
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    They got the statue right for the steelworkers in Sheffield at Meadowhall.......

    ........which I think is fantastic...........so it can't be that difficult to get something that is APPROPRIATE for the hard slog that went into building the town of Barnsley.
     
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    Agreed
     
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