Why no statues in Accy? - Page 3

accymel · 28-09-2005, 18:22

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Would still like to see James Hargreaves and his jenny though.

mmmmmm would be nice centrepiece to the broadway & again part of accy history

SPUGGIE J · 28-09-2005, 18:41

Would be better than some of the ideas HBC have of how broadway should look, but allas accy history only goes back to 1974 as far as HBC are concerned.

Acrylic-bob · 28-09-2005, 19:17

Please don't take my comments as criticism, that was not my intention.

I agree that Accrington has too little in the way of sculpture or public art. I think it would be interesting to try and get away from the idea that public art has to be memorialising something or someone. Or how about abstract qualities like honour, truth, hard work, hope, aspiration - good and effective local government??????

What about Art for its own sake; the inherant beauty of form or materials?

What about a sculpture of, and about, the good old Accrington Brick?

Or, maybe, something which all of us on the forum value highly, like Freedom of Speech.

If Covent Garden can put brainless celebrities in it's pavement in the form of Stars, what about having the whole of Broadway paved with ideas of what it means to be English?

Who says the Art has to be permanent. I for one would support the idea of filling the town centre with a sea of red roses. They could be grown in troughs and used to make patterns and unusual divisions in the streets.

I also like the idea of water in the streets. Imagine a huge fractured pipe rising up out of the pavement of broadway gushing thousands of gallons of water!

What about light? does anyone remember the pictures they projected onto the facade of Buckingham Palace during The Queen's Golden Jubilee? How much would a few lazers cost? They would be more interesting and be more of an attraction than a few pitiful strings of 60watt coloured bulbs!

Blackpool has the biggest mirror ball in the world located on the promenade - why can't we have one .....Even BIGGER! - on top of the Coppice - floodlit - and radiating Accrington's light to the whole of East Lancashire!

garinda · 28-09-2005, 19:40

Just a note regarding statuary. Unless I'm mistaken, some of the some of the stone work appears to have been taken down froMm the top of the market hall, although the statues in the centre are still there.

Have they been removed for cleaning? Lets hope it doesn't take years like it did last time.

accystan123 · 28-09-2005, 19:50

I can think of 4 statues that are situated in Accrington,although they have been know to move from time to time......The Accrington Stanley back 4.........Good job we have the rapid strikeforce to cover up for them!

SPUGGIE J · 28-09-2005, 19:52

Pete that was a bit low was it not. Stanley are doing ok at the moment unlike other teams that could be mentioned.

fireman · 28-09-2005, 19:54

wWe may not have statues of Accrington Statesmen or Women, but we do have some fantastic pieces of fine building... The Aq'ueduct through the town (although that really infers a water carrier) is a work of art in itself and if maintained is a work of art far superior to most .

SPUGGIE J · 28-09-2005, 19:57

Is there not plenty of statues in the council chamber?

garinda · 28-09-2005, 19:57

It does seem odd that a town of such wealthy nineteenth century indusrialists didn't lumber upon their downtrodden workers great edifices of themselves for their workers to appreciate in Accrington.

Perhaps they were wiser than we thought thought, and used their vast wealth to build sumptuous summer palaces in the Scottish countryside, away from their loyal serfs. How thoughtful.

SPUGGIE J · 28-09-2005, 20:02

That wouldnt be the bulloughs one would it G Kinloch castle?

garinda · 28-09-2005, 20:07

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

That wouldnt be the bulloughs one would it G Kinloch castle?

Yup, it would be.

accymel · 28-09-2005, 20:12

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Originally Posted by fireman

wWe may not have statues of Accrington Statesmen or Women, but we do have some fantastic pieces of fine building... The Aq'ueduct through the town (although that really infers a water carrier) is a work of art in itself and if maintained is a work of art far superior to most .

Yeh you have a point the aqueduct is a fine structure

SPUGGIE J · 28-09-2005, 20:24

Thought it was a viaduct

WillowTheWhisp · 28-09-2005, 20:41

It is

I like the things in Blackburn Church Street too - symbolic but interesting at the same time. Why can't we have something like that on Broadway?

I think I like the idea of the fractured pipe. Can't be accused of wasting water with it either after the downpour we've had today.

fireman · 28-09-2005, 21:01

Yoy right spuggie I couldn't think of the word ......But it is rather special

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Thought it was a viaduct