A Great Day Out in the North.

[English Bloke]

After a bite to eat we made our way North to... "The Angel of the North"


This sculpture by Antony Gormley is one of the most viewed pieces of Art in the world. It is situated right beside the busy A1 and is seen by one person every second, 90,000 people per day and 33million people per year... That's quite alot. It is staggering in it's immenseness. I absolutely love it. It's made out of 200 tonnes of weathering steel and was sunk into old pit-workings and is anchored, 20 meters down. It is 20 meters tall (65 feet) and has a span of 54 meters (175 feet)

A word from the man who designed it before I let the pictures speak:

"People are always asking why an angel? The only response I can give is that people have never seen one and we need to keep imagining them. The Angel has three functions. Firstly a historic one to remind us that below this site, coal miners worked in the dark for two hundred years, secondly to grasp hold of our future expressing our transition from the industrial to the information age, and lastly to be a focus for our hopes and fears".
Antony Gormley - Sculptor.