This looks interesting - Page 3

Gayle · 30-11-2006, 19:32

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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

who in their right mind would name anyone 'Serena of the Hill'.

Erm, isn't that how most names have been developed - Wilkinson was Wilkins son, Knight was a Knight and Fletcher was the job the father did - so Serena of the Hill is a pretty normal name.

Ianto.W. · 30-11-2006, 20:06

Burnley? good grief A goalkeeper would have been more use than a lump of scrap steel 'interwoven' with firewood to Burnley, I'll give it a fortnight before the 'thing' is the pile of rubbish, the best 'scrappers in the world are in Burnley.

silvermain · 30-11-2006, 20:14

If it is in burnley it will be chavved up with some nice grafiti pretty quickly as those dingles do like to practise their As and Bs at any chance they get.

WillowTheWhisp · 30-11-2006, 22:31

Now you see, I like that and I think it would have suited an approach road to Accy. Why couldn't we have had one of those? It would have made a brilliant panopticon (or maybe a mono-opticon) on the M65 between Clayton and Huncoat.

Doug · 30-11-2006, 22:38

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Now you see, I like that and I think it would have suited an approach road to Accy. Why couldn't we have had one of those? It would have made a brilliant panopticon (or maybe a mono-opticon) on the M65 between Clayton and Huncoat.

It would look better on top of Hambledon to warn off the dingles...Actually if it was done right it would look good.

Gayle · 08-10-2007, 15:06

Well, it's arrived. There was never any doubt about where it would be and it was put in position late last week.

Go and take a look for yourself. It's about 18ft high and has two posts next to it - over the coming years the planting around the posts will grow up the posts until it looks as though the man is immerging from the forest.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-10-2007, 15:30

Hope to be able to get over that way one day soon to have a look at it.

Lolly · 08-10-2007, 15:41

Where exactly is it?

WillowTheWhisp · 08-10-2007, 15:43

Somewhere long the M65 between junction 11 and junction 12

Lolly · 08-10-2007, 15:46

Can you see it from the motorway?

WillowTheWhisp · 08-10-2007, 16:59

I think so. Haven't seen it myself but I think it was meant to be seen from the motorway.

kathleen_firth · 08-10-2007, 22:17

i thoink it will look good

WillowTheWhisp · 10-10-2007, 15:39

I heard the artist on the radio yesterday explaining that it will deteriorate over time, she referred to it as 'evolving'. It's going to take about 10 years to 'evolve' - by which time the wood it is emerging from should have grown up. Seems a bit of a shame that it is planned to decay. I wonder why she didn't do a living sculpture or would that have been too time consuming with having to wait until things grow before they could be woven in?

RossendaleOnline · 10-10-2007, 15:56

Quite like the look of this.
There are similar willow sculptures at Wycoller, near Pendle.

Is it possible to walk up to it and if so, does anyone have any directions to it from the M65 please?

lancsdave · 10-10-2007, 16:03

It's in a field next to the motorway fence and Crowood Leisure at junction 11, it's as you get to the top of the slip of the road going on to the M65 at J11.

If you want to get to it ( not sure if you can walk right up to it) it's a pain from Accy because it's the junction you can't get off at eastbound, the one near Asda. You either need to drive through Burnley centre and go to the roundabout for the motorway at J11, or go through to J12 and come back on yourself. It is quite striking and you won't miss it if you go on the M65