Tyne and Wear HER(11051): Heworth, Whitehill Drive, 'Windy Nook' - Details
11051
Gateshead
Heworth, Whitehill Drive, 'Windy Nook'
Heworth
NZ26SE
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Street Furniture
Sculpture
Modern
C20
Structure
1986 by Richard Cole. A sculpture in stone blocks and earth 30m long and 15m wide. The granite blocks came from the old Scotswood Bridge. Resembles a fortification on the top of the hill, a former colliery pit heap. Known locally as 'the fortress'.
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607
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Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 74