North Shields, Dockwray Square, statue of Stan Laurel

HER Number:
10901

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Dockwray Square, statue of Stan Laurel

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Sculpture

Site Type: Specific:
Statue

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1994. A statue of early film comedian Stan Laurel, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Cumbria in 1890. Stan Laurel lived at No. 8 Dockwray Square from 1897 to 1901. The statue shows him in comic pose, scratching his head, with bowler hat in hand. The statue stands in a fenced and gated park.

Easting:
3600

Northing:
6843

Grid Reference:
NZ36006843

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 83; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 156; North Tyneside Council and Nexus, North Shields Heritage Trail, board 12 'High Town'