The woods already featured a wooden sculpture of a quarry worker called Charlie, which was etched with a swastika by vandals five years ago.<\/p>\n
A fundraiser was launched to pay for repairs and the left over money funded the carving of Martha, designed to represent women who worked in quarries that formerly occupied the site.<\/p>\n
But a year after its 2023 unveiling, the statue’s eyes were gouged out.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in March this year vandals cut down 27 established trees in the wood to build a den, with replacements costing \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n
In the latest incident on Monday evening, the sculpture’s legs were broken. It has now been taken to the civic association’s office to be repaired.<\/p>\n
The association’s woodland manager Harriet Saltis said: “The frustrating part is we don’t know why they’ve done it, why would they damage such a a positive representation of the heritage and the history of Buxton.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking at Martha now just lying on the floor just being supported by a couple bits of wood here and there’s definitely a sense of deja vu.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information has been asked to contact Derbyshire Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woods already featured a wooden sculpture of a quarry worker called Charlie, which was etched with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}