Industry of Bilston

Industry of Bilston brick carved relief frieze, Bilston Job Centre facade

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Industry of Bilston

Industry of Bilston brick carved relief frieze, Bilston Job Centre facade

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The brick relief panel was depicting former Bilston Industry measured 3m by 2.75m wide, and was commissioned by the Employment Service Agency.

Sited on the Bilston High Street, in the West Midlands. The colours were created on the brick relief using coloured clay bodies and fired on engobes. Commissioned by the Employment Service Agency as a percent for art initiative for a new job centre.The panel showing what a busy place Bilston used to be, now with hardly any of those heavy industries left. What do people do there now? The town sited in the ‘black country’ was formerly involved in the production of steel using the Bessemer process and the surrounding area was a coal mining district which provided essential materials for the steel making process. The sculpture shows the Bessemer converter and a foundry at work, the coal pit head winch wheels with some of the products of that industry in the foreground.


location
Bilston Jobcentre facade at 14 High St, Bilston WV14 0DB
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year
1997
material
Brick
dimensions
3m by 2.75m
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