[7] Both relief sculptures were carrying on the panel theme from the original Queen Mary ship built in Clydebank and launched in 1934.
The new facilities saw the creation of a colossal mining figure, named 'Jigger' commissioned by the Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council for a site in Brownhills.
[9] It became the biggest representational sculpture figure of a miner in the UK and a significant public artwork for that area of the Black Country.
It was named 'Jigger' after Jack 'Jigger' Taylor, a local coal miner, who died in an industrial accident when the roof of the pit at Walsall Wood where he was working collapsed, in 1951.
The Kestrel was commissioned by the client for the Citadel Logistics Building on the Black Country Spine route, near Bilston in the West Midlands.
The Kestrel concept for the artwork came about through design research work undertaken by A4A associate Steve Field drawing on Natural History information on the former site.
The statue was cast at the A4A studio foundry and depicts Round making a return play of the ball, based on an old photo, as conceived by Steve Field.