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ArtistMaker: Park Gate Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (makers)
TitleOfWork: ingot and colliery arches
DescriptionOfPhoto: view towards roundabout
DateOfCreation: 1966
Dimensions: Height to centre of arch: 270 cm
Medium: iron; steel
Location: Roundabout between Great Eastern Way and Aldwarke Road
AtoZReference: p. 69 4F/G
Postcode:
Street: Great Eastern Way and Aldwarke Road
TownOrVillage: Rawmarsh
AreaInTown: Parkgate
MetropolitanBorough: Rotherham
Photographer: Dave Ball
ImageCopyright: Sheffield Hallam University
AccessionNumber: r045a
Description: Four large curved steel girders protruding from the ground. They meet and are welded together to a circular steel plate, which is located above an ingot planted in the ground. There is an information plaque on the ingot.

Plaque: "RAWMARSH URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL / THE INGOT AND STEEL COLLIERY ARCHES / WERE MADE BY THE / PARK GATE IRON & STEEL CO. LTD. / AND PLACED ON THIS SITE BY / THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL / COUNCILLOR A. HAWKE J.P. / ON THE 17TH DAY OF APRIL 1966 / TO MARK THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE / NEW TOWN CENTRE
COUNCILLOR K.R.SIMMONDS C.E.BELLOWS A.M.I..E., M.I.H.E.
CHAIRMAN OF THE TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE ENGINEER & SURVEYOR"

Commission: not known





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