About The Metal Miners
In the year 2024, we have installed over 30 Metal Miners with more to come across North Somerset and Bristol.
After several meetings looking at ways to remind people there were coal mines in North Somerset and Bristol the Somerset Miners Wefare Trust trustees decided on 7 foot metal miners near sites of old coal mines.
After the prototype at Camerton it was decided they had to be bigger and held by a box section frame for stability and strength.
From day one of the first two being installed at Coleford there were messages coming in from Parish Councils around the area wishing to have a miner in their village.
Metal Miners are sited in many different places from the middle of the town centre in Midsomer Norton, Midsomer Norton train station, and a group of three by the winding wheel opposite the museum in Radstock, unveiled by the trusts President Glastonbury’s own Sir Michael Eavis on the 50th anniversary of the closure of the last two pits in Somerset Kilmersdon and Writhlington.
We are currently developing a map of the miners and it will be available soon.