North Shields, Redburn Dene, 'Play Area'

HER Number:
11185

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Redburn Dene, 'Play Area'

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Street Furniture

Site Type: Specific:
Sculpture

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1995 by Richard Broderick and Graham Robinson for Northern Freeform. Off Howdon Road at the north end of the Dene. A mock playground with colourful concrete sculptures of cars, buses and a castle set within a wooden fence. The floorscape is set with mosaics. At the south end there is a mound with a silver chimney-like column with a fibreglass figure of a child on top, which points out to sea between the two piers.

Easting:
348

Northing:
674

Grid Reference:
NZ348674

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 164