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COCKENZIE POWERSTATION MURAL
Title: Box meeting Gala Parade
Date: Dec 2004
Size: 70 feet by 10 feet
Clients/funding: Cockenzie Powerstation, Baroncourts of Prestoungrange, Scotland Unltd
From April 2004 Brushstrokes Magazine
"Together
with Scotland UnLtd, The Prestoungrange Arts Festival has funded a mural
on the power station walls
by Andrew Crummy,
which
offers
a visual celebration of the history of the site.
The mural images include elements of the social and working life of the people
of Cockenzie and Prestonpans, from fisher folk to salt workers to colliers,
as well as a visual record of the early stages of the construction of the
Power Station itself.
The mural includes: Power station, Box meeting parade, Fisherman Association
banner, 1959 Gala Queen, John Bellany, Pipers, Preston Monks and Salt, portraits
of Marlene Love, Stan Love and others connected or working in the Powerstation,
Prestonlinks Colliery, Fishermen carrying a traditional fishing boat. The
first wooden railway line in UK (The Wagonway), Engineer who built The Power
station,
Girl who was born on the day the first brick was laid to build the power
station, fisherwomen, fishermen, two church towers in Cockenzie, elements
of the powers
station including turbine, reference to the reclaimed land and wildlife in
Musselburgh lagoons, etc."