Not expecting to find anything inspiring about that day, or Redruth, the welly boot dog scuptures made me think about who put them there, who created them and why bother trying to cheer up Redruth in the first place?
the tinners hounds: sculptor david kemp, st just.
When Geevor mind closed in the 1980s, he decided to to find a use for the hundreds of mining boots that were being ploughed in as landfill. the original 'Hounds of Geevor' toured museums and art galleries as: "relics of a subterranean workforce that rarely saw the light of day, each of these hounds fed three and half families (seven boots). released from thier underground labours, they now wander the clifftops, looking for a proper job." [david just]
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