This looks interesting

£15000 to erect ?
Nice statue and all that but lets be honest, shouldnt the councils be spending the money on more urgent needed projects. Geez, if they got that sort of money spare why dont they donate it to the local hospital towards a scanner or something. :)
 
I don't think the money is available to the council for anything else than putting up some kind of thing like this.
 
The money is not coming from the Council.



It is coming from the Arts Council (i.e. lottery), Lancashire Economic Partnership (i.e. government money) and private investor (the sculpture will actually be placed on private land) and therefore this project has no real involvement from the council other than they need to pass planning permission.



The Lancashire Telegraph, once again, have taken the slightly sensationalist view. The sculpture in Burnley will be little over 16ft, on a much smaller scale to the one in Somerset.



Serena de la Hey is a well known willow artist and has sculptures all around the world. Mid Pennine Arts were asked, via Forest of Burnley, to come up with some ideas to celebrate the woodlands of the area.
 
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Will the landowner be responsible for taking care of it? I remember those smaller ones locally which were vandalised and that was a crying shame.
 
I seem to recall a 1970's film of a similar name about a similar object...The Wicker Man...I think it starred Edward Woodward. Anyway, It got burnt down at the end of the film.

I'll give this 'un a week before the dingles put it up in flames.
 
Tealeaf said:
I seem to recall a 1970's film of a similar name about a similar object...The Wicker Man...I think it starred Edward Woodward. Anyway, It got burnt down at the end of the film.
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OMG ! The Wickerman was a film?.. I thought its was an in depth, fly on the wall documentary about Ossie folk!
 
Shouldnt fair to bad if its outwith walking distance of the local hoolies. That said like the Angel of the North it would look better after a lick of paint.
 
Mrs Knight, you sounded sexy on the radio this afternoon......Sorry Gayle, I have to agree with our respected friend Tealeaf, it will go up in flames won't it. You'll have the dingles sending out foraging parties for a bit of willow to go with their peat………..Either that or you’ll find then running round naked thinking it was the second coming….:) :D
 
Tealeaf said:
I seem to recall a 1970's film of a similar name about a similar object...The Wicker Man...I think it starred Edward Woodward. Anyway, It got burnt down at the end of the film.

I'll give this 'un a week before the dingles put it up in flames.
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Why would the "dingles" put it up in flames??? Its going to be near Crow's Wood in BLACKBURN!!!! No where near Burnley. So its more likely to be little blackburnians, than us "dingles"
 
Lolly said:
Why would the "dingles" put it up in flames??? Its going to be near Crow's Wood in BLACKBURN!!!! No where near Burnley. So its more likely to be little blackburnians, than us "dingles"
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MEOW!!! Regaurdless of were it goes some Dick Twirpin will doo away with it. :o
 
Gayle said:
It is coming from the Arts Council (i.e. lottery), Lancashire Economic Partnership (i.e. government money) and private investor (the sculpture will actually be placed on private land) and therefore this project has no real involvement from the council other than they need to pass planning permission.
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cant argue with that all i am going to say is iem just glad it isnt our money paying for it , what folk do with their own money is up to them

incidently how much does it cost these days to ensure planning permision ;)
 
Doug said:
Mrs Knight, you sounded sexy on the radio this afternoon......Sorry Gayle, I have to agree with our respected friend Tealeaf, it will go up in flames won't it. You'll have the dingles sending out foraging parties for a bit of willow to go with their peat………..Either that or you’ll find then running round naked thinking it was the second coming….:) :D
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Thank you Doug, I got ambushed by the radio because the Telegraph printed the story this morning because they'd read the planning reports. I am really worried that by printing this they are raising expectations and if it fails planning permission we'll get hammered again.

I really don't like this defeatist attitude that if you build something it's always going to be destroyed. If you give in to that attitude then nothing would ever be achieved. You have to keep building and creating new things and showing the 'dingles' that they can't beat us.
 
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