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Sculptures in Bilston.


Women's Work sculpture near the top of Church Street in Bilston. Outside of the Horse and Jockey pub.

By Rose Garrard, 1996 - 1998.

Commissioned by Blue Lamp Business Parks Ltd. A maquette was made for an exhibition in 1995 and the full scale model in 1997.


This four metre high bronze sculpture by Rose Garrard of a female figure beside a pit-head gantry, commemorates the impoverished women working in the 19th century coal and iron industries of the Black Country. It can be seen in Bilston High Street close to the site of a ‘fold’, a cluster of small hovels where families lived and the women repetitively forged tiny items such as nails, chain links and pulleys, selling them to merchants to survive. These items have been fused into the clothing of this metamorphic figure, whose head is the small anvil and her forearms the tongs used for holding the hot metal. Her feet are flat irons, while the back of her skirt is composed of stacked cooking pots. Local women were later employed in nearby factories making cast iron cooking pots and flat irons as well as in large laundries where they put the irons to use. The figure is stooped over to support her burden of coal, the constant position of a ‘pit-bank wench’ paid to work bowed down all day to reclaim any usable lumps of coal from the slag heaps at the pit head.
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