Detail View: SHIMMER: The Railway Stone

Title: 
The Railway Stone
Creation Date: 
1989
Image Date: 
2002
Period: 
20th century
Location: 
Silkstone Common, South Yorkshire
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Material: 
sandstone
Display Creator: 
SLATER, Tony
Image ID: 
03-0791
Description: 
General view

Location: By a public footpath: the Dove Valley Trail, Silkstone Common, Barnsley.

Description: Bench with a carved stone pillar at either end and a central stone column. One end post shows a train driver with an oil can, this end shows a fireman with a shovel. The central column has the front of a locomotive carved on it.

Commission: Organised by the Silkstone Heritage Stones Project, composed of local residents. Commissioned in April, completed in July and sited in September 1989.

Comment: The Silkstone Heritage Stones Project has won the Ford United Kingdom British Conservation Awards Heritage Category and the UK Conservation Project of the Year (1990), the Yorkshire Rural Community Council, Village Ventures (1990) and The Times/RIBA Award (1991)

References: Sara Selwood: "The benefits of public art in Great Britain"

Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
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Photographed by: 
Dave Ball
Creator: 
SLATER, Tony
Creator Role: 
Sculptor.
Culture Gender: 
Male.
Nationality: 
British.
Subject Heading: 
Memorials -- England (South Yorkshire)
Subject Heading: 
Sculpture -- 1900-2000
Subject Heading: 
Public art -- England (South Yorkshire)
Subject Heading: 
Stone carving
Subject Heading: 
Monuments
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