Tyne and Wear HER(5961): North Shields, Customs House Quay, wooden dolly 2 - Details
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N Tyneside
North Shields, Customs House Quay, wooden dolly 2
North Shields
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Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Sculpture
Statue
Early Modern
C19
Destroyed Monument
The second wooden dolly was placed at Custom's House Quay by a Mr. Hare, sailmaker around 1850. It is thought also to have been a ship's figurehead, but nothing else is known of its origin. She stood on the spot until 1864.
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Keith Armstrong (ed.), 1994, The Wooden Dolly - the story of the North Shields Wooden Dolly