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Guisborough Forest and Walkway Carvings

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There are numerous wooden carvings immediately around the car park area of the visitors centre.
Guisborough Forest and Walkway
These owls are the same as those in Errington Woods so must be by Steve Iredale
Guisborough Forest and Walkway
His work is generally animals, so this is most likely his too.
Guisborough Forest and Walkway
This one seems a little more basic, perhaps some sort of workshop of kids ?
Guisborough Forest and Walkway
This walker is Steve Iredale again and dates from the Diabetes UK Great North Walk in 2010
Guisborough Forest and Walkway
This final carving of a face into a live tree is very interesting.

Loftus Stonemason Sculpture

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Mayor Olwyn Peters unveiled the sculpture on Wednesday 18th April. Designed by artist Steve Tomlinson of Stokesley and cast by Geoff Robinson in Liverton Mines.
Loftus Stonemasons Yard
The location was the site of Arrowsmiths Monumental Mason Yard from 1905, owned later by Edgar Colbeck until the late 1960s
Loftus Stonemasons Yard
Against the neighbouring buildings are a number of fragments of carved masonry from the site.
Loftus Stonemasons Yard

Skinningrove Merman Mosaic

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This mosaic depicting the merman legend on Skinningroves Riverside Building was unveiled by Mayor Olwyn Peters in March 2012
Skinningrove Merman
It was created by the Whitecliffe Primary School children under the supervision of Glynis Johnson
Skinningrove Merman
Theres also a nice set of tiles showing a row of local cottages.
Skinningrove Mural

Update : Looks like this was incomplete on my first visit as a dog has been added looking at the mermans fish.
Skinningrove Flood Mosaic

Lingdale Mining Heritage Park

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I have previously covered some of the Ironstone Reminders around Lingdale, but since that post in 2009 some additional items have appeared such as this plaque.
Lingdale Mining Heritage Park
This Lingdale Junction train sculpture was unveiled on 1st December 2011 and funded by Lingdale Liftoff
Lingdale Mining Heritage Park

Also new is a plaque commemorating the mine workers from 1873 – 1962, including the 8 men killed in an underground gas explosion on Monday 24th August 1953

John Butcher (48), Jack Breckon (65), Tom Breckon (34), Anthony Carter (19), William Grayson (16), Jack Ward (28), Charles Bottomley (26) and Jack Davison(52)

Lingdale Mining Heritage Park

7 of the 15 men in the explosion survived and I recently saw the grave of Anthony McCormick who was 18 at the time. His grave in Redcar cemetary records the event.

Redcar Figures Sculpture

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This piece seems to be known simply as ‘Redcar Figures Sculpture’ by J Tweedy in 1999Redcar Figures Sculpture
There’s a mermaid, lifeboatman and Captain Cook (a tenuous link, his sister and father have Redcar connections)
Redcar Figures Sculpture
A pirate complete with parrot, hook, eye-patch and peg-leg ? (i’ve never heard of any association of Redcar with pirates real or fictional)
Redcar Figures Sculpture

Finally theres a genuine piece of Redcar history with Gertrude Bell on a camel.

 

Ralph Ward Jackson Statue, Hartlepool

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Ralph Ward Jackson (7 June 1806 – 6 August 1880) was the founder of West Hartlepool and was the towns first MP in 1868.
Ralph Ward Jackson, Hartlepool
The sculptor was Edward Onslow Ford
Ralph Ward Jackson, Hartlepool
It was donated by Colonel J. W. Cameron, the founder of Camerons brewery to mark the jubilee of the opening of the towns first dock and harbour.
Ralph Ward Jackson, Hartlepool
The statue was unveiled on 12th June 1897 by the Marquis of Londonderry.