{"id":310618,"date":"2026-03-03T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:37:13","slug":"plans-to-move-stoke-on-trents-steel-man-statue-submitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310618\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to move Stoke-on-Trent&#8217;s Steel Man statue submitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statue created 52 years ago to commemorate steelworkers in Stoke-on-Trent is set to be moved after plans were submitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steel Man could be relocated from outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Hanley to the Goodwin Steel Castings foundry, on the corner of Leek Road and Ivy House Road, where it was originally cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The monument, a life-sized figure dressed in protective clothing and wielding an oxygen lance, was created in 1974 by artist Colin Melbourne in honour of staff at Shelton Bar steelworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement with the planning application lodged with Stoke-on-Trent City Council said the statue embodied  &#8220;craftmanship and heritage&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statue created 52 years ago to commemorate steelworkers in Stoke-on-Trent is set to be moved after plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-310618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}