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Ted in the snow 170123
Just a smartphone shot using a Samsung Galaxy A51 because I didn’t bring my Fuji out with me yesterday morning when I was walking Ted. He loves the snow, as you can possibly see from the pictures. He runs around in it like a yearling puppy, rolls in it, lies on it and stands staring at it. He doesn’t want to come in when there’s snow about. It’s all right for him with that double coat of fur, but, for me, at 2degC, even with five layers including thermals and heavy walking boots, I start to feel the cold quickly. I think it’s an old age thing.
Ted in the snow 170123
Just a smartphone shot using a Samsung Galaxy A51 because I didn’t bring my Fuji out with me yesterday morning when I was walking Ted. He loves the snow, as you can possibly see from the pictures. He runs around in it like a yearling puppy, rolls in it, lies on it and stands staring at it. He doesn’t want to come in when there’s snow about. It’s all right for him with that double coat of fur, but, for me, at 2degC, even with five layers including thermals and heavy walking boots, I start to feel the cold quickly. I think it’s an old age thing.
Dream (a sculpture just off the M62 near St.Helens)
The sculpture is on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery. It is 20m high and is constructed of 90 blocks of concrete containing marble aggregate.
"Older voices echo deep in this world-within-a-world, and in stone, dust and darkness we trace and retrace the footsteps of our fathers."
The spectacular 20-metre-high sculpture, portraying the head of a girl with her eyes closed, is the artist's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and members of the wider local community. Dream is fabricated in pre-cast concrete, with a white, almost luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, in marked contrast to the black of the coal that still lies below.
'Dream' is a monument to Sutton Manor Colliery, and a more general tribute to the coal mining history of St Helens. Additionally, it's supposed to be a forward-looking sculpture rather than acting solely as a memorial. It is in part inspired by the town motto "ex terra lucem" which translates as "from the ground, light".
This was my first visit, and I think it's fantastic. Such are the dimensions of the face that it looks very surreal, almost as if it isn't actually there!
This is one of several flame like sculptures on the landscaped site once occupied by Sutton Manor Colliery. Each flame carries a poem written by a redundant miner on the closure and demolition of the pit.
"There is wisdom in our bones, in our aching backs and blistered feet. We blink the dust from our eyes every time we awake and because we remember, we remain."
The spectacular 20-metre-high sculpture, portraying the head of a girl with her eyes closed, is the artist's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and members of the wider local community. Dream is fabricated in pre-cast concrete, with a white, almost luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, in marked contrast to the black of the coal that still lies below.
'Dream' is a monument to Sutton Manor Colliery, and a more general tribute to the coal mining history of St Helens. Additionally, it's supposed to be a forward-looking sculpture rather than acting solely as a memorial. It is in part inspired by the town motto "ex terra lucem" which translates as "from the ground, light".
This was my first visit, and I think it's fantastic. Such are the dimensions of the face that it looks very surreal, almost as if it isn't actually there!
The spectacular 20-metre-high sculpture, portraying the head of a girl with her eyes closed, is the artist's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and members of the wider local community. Dream is fabricated in pre-cast concrete, with a white, almost luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, in marked contrast to the black of the coal that still lies below.
'Dream' is a monument to Sutton Manor Colliery, and a more general tribute to the coal mining history of St Helens. Additionally, it's supposed to be a forward-looking sculpture rather than acting solely as a memorial. It is in part inspired by the town motto "ex terra lucem" which translates as "from the ground, light".
This was my first visit, and I think it's fantastic. Such are the dimensions of the face that it looks very surreal, almost as if it isn't actually there!
Dream (a sculpture just off the M62 near St.Helens)
The sculpture is on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery. It is 20m high and is constructed of 90 blocks of concrete containing marble aggregate.
this beautiful park is on the site of the old Sutton Manor colliery St Helens. My dog Taffy is waiting for me to catch up
'Dream' is a monument to Sutton Manor Colliery, and a more general tribute to the coal mining history of St Helens. Additionally, it's supposed to be a forward-looking sculpture rather than acting solely as a memorial. It is in part inspired by the town motto "ex terra lucem" which translates as "from the ground, light".
This was my first visit, and I think it's fantastic. Such are the dimensions of the face that it looks very surreal, almost as if it isn't actually there!
The spectacular 20-metre-high sculpture, portraying the head of a girl with her eyes closed, is the artist's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and members of the wider local community. Dream is fabricated in pre-cast concrete, with a white, almost luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, in marked contrast to the black of the coal that still lies below.
Dog walk along the closed Clockface Line as I always knew it, passing by the closed Sutton Manor Colliery now home of The Dream & of course Clockface Colliery also long closed, at least Thatcher is as dead the mines she closed.
"Beneath us there's a labyrinth, a tangle of forgotten pathways. We walk alone in dreams among the twisted, rusted shapes that litter memory's lanes."
'Dream' a 20m statue (when complete).
Is sited on top of the former Sutton Manor Colliery, overlooking the M62 in St Helens.
"I am hope, a protection, a ray of sunlight underground. My song of freedom dances in the miners hearts. I sit and watch over them."
A walk with Ted in Daisyfield woodland, Sutton Manor, St Helens, Merseyside on a misty morning yesterday (14/11/2024)
The Dream Country Park 281123
A walk with Ted, our dog, on a frosty late November morning, around the Dream Country Park in St Helens, Merseyside. The park is built on reclaimed land previously used by the Sutton Manor colliery. The construction of the 66ft high Dream statue was won by the town – one of four public arts projects awarded nationally by a Channel Four television programme, ‘The Big Art Project’, together with The Art Fund and Arts Council England.. The sculptor/designer was Jaume Plensa. The walk was also, probably, my last chance to look across to the cooling towers of the Fidlers Ferry former power station: four of them are due to be demolished on December 3rd.
Whilst clearing out I came across this 30-year old object, covered in my teenage scribblings. 'Oh Shit' could be a Buzzcocks song, but here refers to a failed driving test,