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FIDDLERS GREEN NORTH SHIELDS 1928 DNC DE SEPIA-
FIDDLER'S GREEN - NORTH SHIELDS
A memorial to those fisherman lost at sea created by Ray Lonsdale, an artist and steel fabricator from South Hetton, County Durham, in Corten Steel giving a projected lifespan of 150 years. The inspiration for the figure is from a photograph taken in 1961 by local photographer Harry Hann entitled 'The Salt'.
The memorial site was given the name Fiddler’s Green, a term that originated in 19th-century maritime folklore for a mythical afterlife location of perpetual merriment, with a fiddle that never stops playing, dancers who never tire, and drink which flows freely, for sailors and mariners who had served their time at sea.
FIDDLERS GREEN NORTH SHIELDS 1928 DNC DE SEPIA-
FIDDLER'S GREEN - NORTH SHIELDS
A memorial to those fisherman lost at sea created by Ray Lonsdale, an artist and steel fabricator from South Hetton, County Durham, in Corten Steel giving a projected lifespan of 150 years. The inspiration for the figure is from a photograph taken in 1961 by local photographer Harry Hann entitled 'The Salt'.
The memorial site was given the name Fiddler’s Green, a term that originated in 19th-century maritime folklore for a mythical afterlife location of perpetual merriment, with a fiddle that never stops playing, dancers who never tire, and drink which flows freely, for sailors and mariners who had served their time at sea.