The Miner or The Anderton Mining Monument, St Helens Linkway, St Helens

The Miner, also known as The Anderton Mining Monument, is a sculpture located on St Helens Linkway, created in 1964 by Arthur Fleischmann. It was commissioned by Lord Robens, the Chairman of the National Coal Board, and cast in bronze by John Galizia & Son Ltd in Battersea.

This free-standing sculpture features the head, shoulders, and arms of a miner, which are set on a column made from a steel cutting drum and a spiral screw, both of which are colored bronze. The statue is designed in a heroic and monumental style, showcasing a realistic bronze bust of a miner. The miner is depicted holding a large lump of coal above head height, wearing a mining helmet with an attached light, and his muscular physique is visible as he is unclothed from the waist up.

The column supporting the statue is divided into two equal parts by three circular discs. The upper part consists of the steel cutting drum, while the lower part is formed by a bronze-colored spiral screw made of fibreglass. The sculpture is elevated on a high, square pedestal made of railway sleepers, which stands on a railway sleeper plinth. This pedestal and plinth are later 20th-century additions and are not considered to have special architectural or historic interest.