Statues are boring.

[Wobblers]

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... anthropomorphising the landscape into a giant statue of the mind. That's more like it.[/quote]

User, you need to lay off the windolene and stick to quaffing beer!

 

[MontyVeda]

Cobbett Road Library is Bitterne has a statue that is a person filing a book into the wall

A fun and relevant statue

Looks familiar... is it BA Robertson?

 

[ColinJ]

I was once given directions in Morecambe '...go along the front and turn left at Eric' !

And ... 'keep on going, don't look back'?

 

[Spinney]

And ... 'keep on going, don't look back'?

Morecambe's got a very nice sea front, I'll have you know! Lots of bird sculptures/models, and lovely view across the bay.
But best to keep looking across the bay, really....

 

[ColinJ]

Morecambe's got a very nice sea front, I'll have you know! Lots of bird sculptures/models, and lovely view across the bay.
But best to keep looking across the bay, really....

I've never been there, but I read that the town itself has seen better days and is depressing now.

 

[Profpointy]

I rather like this one in Mayfair

 

[Profpointy]

And i also like this one in Cheltenham

 

[slowmotion]

I used to walk past Lord Holland on the way back from taking my daughter to her primary school. He's sitting in his chair in the middle of a pond. In the spring, he would have a certain amount of guano on his head, and be entirely surrounded by hundreds of frogs engaged in an orgy of listless group sex. It was a splendid sight.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Argghhhhhhh Don't blink!

Dammit!!...I'll have to carry the PC monitor around with me to keep looking at it all day.....

 

[downesy]

A fantastic piece of art, the full effect can only be seen from one viewpoint.
The bars are to represent his time in prison.

 

[Spinney]

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A fantastic piece of art, the full effect can only be seen from one viewpoint.
The bars are to represent his time in prison.

Have you got a link for that? Would be good to see a bigger version.

 

[downesy]

Have you got a link for that? Would be good to see a bigger version.

Sorry no my daughter posted it on facebook, but google Nelson Mandela statues it's on there.

 

[Spinney]

Article here, with bigger pic:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/s-africa-marks-mandela-arrest/story-fnd134gw-1226443050862

And this image from one side:

That's def. not a boring statue - thanks for posting @downesy

 

[Spinney]

Still on the subject of Mandela - not really a statue, and not permanent, but I liked this...

(from RIP Nelson Mandela facebook page)

 

[vernon]

I've never been there, but I read that the town itself has seen better days and is depressing now.

I went to Morecambe for the first time last year and managed to shepherd seven or eight schoolmates from the class of '74 there to see a fellow member who whose band was playing a gig there. We had a wonderful time and there's a lot of regeneration taking place in the town. The public works of art are stunning the the sea front is really nice.

I revisited the place August Bank Holiday to start a Coast to Coast ride and spent a couple of hours enjoying the sea front and tea and cake at the former shipping pier/passenger terminal.

Morecambe does not deserve the derision directed at it.