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The Guardian, Six Bells

In 2010, a statue called "The Guardian of the Valleys" was erected near the site of the old Six Bells Colliery, to commemorate the Six Bells Colliery Disaster of 28th June 1960 that killed 45 mine workers.

Costing over £200,000 the memorial is a 12.6 meter high statue of a miner, constructed from over 20,000 individual slices of 10mm thick Cor-Ten steel, a ‘weathering’ steel that allows a protective rust patina to form on its surface.

The statue weighs around 8 tonnes and stands on a 7.4 meter high sandstone plinth. The names, ages and home towns of each of the 45 victims of the disaster are laser cut into the steel plates that surround the plinth.
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