The Waiting Miner, a bronze statue honouring Yorkshire's mining heritage, has been unveiled at the former site of Sheffield's Tinsley Towers, which were demolished in 2008. South Yorkshire's Mayor Oliver Coppard formally unveiled the sculpture, created by artist Harry Phillips, in a ceremony attended by representatives from the National Union of Mineworkers. The statue serves as a tribute to the generations of miners who worked in South Yorkshire's pits and contributed to the region's industrial legacy.

The replica statue previously spent time at E.ON's headquarters in Coventry before being moved to the firm's Blackburn Meadows renewable energy plant. A plaque features an inscription from George Orwell's 1937 novel The Road to Wigan Pier: "If there is one type of man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal miner." The original sculpture was first installed at Richborough Power Station in Kent and now stands at the former Betteshanger Colliery site, also serving as a memorial to Kent's mining heritage.