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"We make our own pathways, they disappear into serenity and sunlight. For beneath this world lies another filled with dreams and scattered memories, the footsteps of our fathers."
Autumn colour seen during a walk in the Dream Country Park, Sutton Manor, St Helens, Merseyside October 2024
"Here is our wisdom, etched in the earth. We remember and we come to glean from metal shapes and rusted dreams, from the scrap-heap of identity, something new and strong and clean."
A walk with Ted in Daisyfield woodland, Sutton Manor, St Helens, Merseyside on a misty morning yesterday (14/11/2024)
Last of the lying snow in the King George V Playing Fields, Sutton Manor, St Helens, Merseyside 110125
'Dream' a 20m statue (when complete).
Is sited on top of the former Sutton Manor Colliery, overlooking the M62 in St Helens.
St Michael-le-Belfrey, York.
Memorial to Thomas Dawny (d1683).
The only pre-Reformation church in York to have been built all at one time (1525-1536) by John Forman, Master Mason to the Minster. Guy Fawkes was baptized here on 16th April 1570.
The Dream Statue, Sutton Manor, St Helens.
Taken for our Shootaboot Project 2010.
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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.
Nearly finished
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Dream (a sculpture just off the M62 near St.Helens)
"Where shattered men no longer drink a flask of tea, or have a sleep. Where the birds have fallen silent we remain, and we remember and blink the dust from our eyes."
Ted, my daughter's Japanese Spitz, King George V playing fields, Sutton Manor, St Helens, Merseyside.
Dream (a sculpture just off the M62 near St.Helens)
Taken at the DREAM installation in Sutton Manor, St Helens, whilst hoping that we might see aurora!
LOW RES version uploaded.
'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 20m statue (when complete).
Is sited on top of the former Sutton Manor Colliery, overlooking the M62 in St Helens.
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.