A mining lamp sculpture has been unveiled celebrating the heritage of a former pit town.
The sculpture, which has been installed at Laurel Road, in Ferryhill, was funded using £20,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and £15,000 from the Neighbourhood Budget secured by former councillors Curtis Bihari and Peter Atkinson.
The lamp commemorates the mining heritage of the town and incorporates the names of mining occupations and terms specific to the Durham Coalfield area. They are engraved around the column of the lamp.
Designer Andrew McKeown said the sculpture would help preserve knowledge of “the people and the culture and the colloquial job names”.