Ryhope, Lansdowne, 'Pit Wheel'

HER Number

11141

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Ryhope, Lansdowne, 'Pit Wheel'

Place

Ryhope

Map Sheet

NZ45SW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

1995 by Wilma Eaton. Two half pit wheels set in parallel with a third smaller steel hemicircle in between, decorated with forged steel miners, winding gear and coal seams. The structure was salvaged from Easington Colliery. Commissioned by City of Sunderland as a tribute to those who worked at Ryhope Colliery between 1856 and 1966.

Easting

440200

Northing

553400

Grid Reference

NZ440200553400

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 169-70; Sunderland Echo 12 September 1995