Local Life - St Helens - September 2019
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Public Art Trail<br />
Grab your walking boots and head off on <strong>Local</strong> <strong>Life</strong>’s <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Helens</strong> public art trail to discover<br />
some of the wonderful sculptures and statues hidden around the borough.<br />
The Landings<br />
A typical mining family rests on the<br />
roundabout by <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Helens</strong> YMCA,<br />
just off the A571. The Landings was<br />
conceived by Thompson Dagnall,<br />
depicting a collier picking coal, a<br />
young boy breaking the coal and a pit<br />
brow lass, who worked on the surface<br />
picking stones, all sitting around a<br />
central column of coal. The statues<br />
were erected to highlight the integrity<br />
of the industry to <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Helens</strong>, and the<br />
devastation of townsfolk when it shut<br />
down. The area’s last pit closed in 1993,<br />
signalling the end of a<br />
dangerous industry.<br />
Queen Victoria<br />
Atop her throne in Victoria Square, the statue of Queen Victoria<br />
was unveiled in 1905, and originally sat in the centre of the square<br />
- it was only moved to the west side in 2000. The Grade-II* listed<br />
statue, to celebrate the benefits <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Helens</strong> received under Queen<br />
Victoria’s rule, was donated to the town by Colonel William<br />
Windle Pilkington, member of the glass-making family<br />
and mayor at the time.
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