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"Miners Bait Table" by Katie Ventress celebrating the 50th anniversary of Boulby Mine

"Miners Bait Table" by Katie Ventress celebrating the 50th anniversary of Boulby Mine

"Miners Bait Table" by Katie Ventress celebrating the 50th anniversary of Boulby Mine

"The sculpture was commissioned to celebrate 50 years of active mining (the installation was delayed due to Covid). It is a replica of a bait bench and table (bait is a colloquial word for a workers' packed meal) located underground, where miners have lunch, and their morning meeting. The table is slightly higher than a normal table, and the seating is lower, so a miner can sit comfortably whilst wearing all his gear. It shows all equipment normally on the communications board – a telephone, with the phone numbers for the different tunnels written above, blast light, emergency button with a tannoy above. There is also a lunch bag, safety glasses and old notices, with the sticky tape peeling off. There is even a cup on the edge of the table. The miner represents a composite all all miners working underground. He is shown wearing all the kit miners in different roles might wear: headlamp, ear muffs on top of his hard hat, full hi-vis jump suit, safety token coloured to look like bronze, self rescue battery pouch and goliath boots. The information and maps on the bait table are laser cut. People are encouraged to sit next to the miner and take a selfie, which will have Boulby Mine in the background. "(artuk.org)

The sculpture lies directly opposite the Boulby mine and on the Cleveland Way from Skinningrove.
Boulby, Staithes (on the Cleveland Way), Yorkshire Coast, North Yorkshire, UK

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"The sculpture was commissioned to celebrate 50 years of active mining (the installation was delayed due to Covid). It is a replica of a bait bench and table (bait is a colloquial word for a workers' packed meal) located underground, where miners have lunch, and their morning meeting. The table is slightly higher than a normal table, and the seating is lower, so a miner can sit comfortably whilst wearing all his gear. It shows all equipment normally on the communications board – a telephone, with the phone numbers for the different tunnels written above, blast light, emergency button with a tannoy above. There is also a lunch bag, safety glasses and old notices, with the sticky tape peeling off. . The miner represents a composite all all miners working underground. He is shown wearing all the kit miners in different roles might wear: headlamp, ear muffs on top of his hard hat, full hi-vis jump suit, safety token coloured to look like bronze, self rescue battery pouch and goliath boots. The information and maps on the bait table are laser cut. People are encouraged to sit next to the miner and take a selfie, which will have Boulby Mine in the background. "(artuk.org)
The sculpture lies directly opposite the Boulby mine and on the Cleveland Way from Skinningrove.

Reggie couldn't resist!

Boulby, Staithes (on the Cleveland Way), Yorkshire Coast, North Yorkshire, UK

©SWJuk (2023)
All rights reserved

"The sculpture was commissioned to celebrate 50 years of active mining (the installation was delayed due to Covid). It is a replica of a bait bench and table (bait is a colloquial word for a workers' packed meal) located underground, where miners have lunch, and their morning meeting. The table is slightly higher than a normal table, and the seating is lower, so a miner can sit comfortably whilst wearing all his gear. It shows all equipment normally on the communications board – a telephone, with the phone numbers for the different tunnels written above, blast light, emergency button with a tannoy above. There is also a lunch bag, safety glasses and old notices, with the sticky tape peeling off. . The miner represents a composite all all miners working underground. He is shown wearing all the kit miners in different roles might wear: headlamp, ear muffs on top of his hard hat, full hi-vis jump suit, safety token coloured to look like bronze, self rescue battery pouch and goliath boots. The information and maps on the bait table are laser cut. People are encouraged to sit next to the miner and take a selfie, which will have Boulby Mine in the background. "(artuk.org)
The sculpture lies directly opposite the Boulby mine and on the Cleveland Way from Skinningrove.
Boulby, Staithes (on the Cleveland Way), Yorkshire Coast, North Yorkshire, UK

©SWJuk (2023)
All rights reserved

Passing the 1937 built Redcar signalbox, 66413 is working the 12:28 Boulby - South Bank.

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Heading downhill from Boulby potash mine

56072 At Hunt Cliff with empties for Boulby. 5 May 2003.

70020 passes Coatham Marsh Nature Reserve, Redcar, working 6F23 09.06 Middlesbrough Goods - Boulby empties, which I'd chased from the other side of Middlesbrough.

This train was running about a quarter of an hour late, having been put in at Grangetown to allow a Northern passenger train to overtake because a loaded train from Boulby, hauled by 70003, had come to a stand on the single line between Crag Hall and Saltburn West Jn. as a result of the engine shutting down. Thankfully 70003 was restarted and the train could continue on its journey. However, just a few minutes before 70020 appeared here, the sun began reflecting very strongly off a greenhouse or glazing in a shed right in the middle of the photo (it's visible behind the fourth and fifth wagons), and I had to move some distance to my left in order to eliminate most of the glare.

The green strip curving to the right behind the loco is the original route of the railway; it was diverted to allow the steelworks site to expand.

Moved forward in my photostream to mark the demolition of the blast furnace at 9am on Wednesday 23rd November 2022.

To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.