Parson's Polygon, Blackett Street, NE1


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4321643

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Parsons' Polygon


Blackett Street


Metro Art


Tyne and Wear Metro

  • Description

    "Another "public art work" - see also NZ2564 : (Part of) Blue Carpet Square and NZ2464 : The Past Is My Present To Your Future. This sculpture, by David Hamilton, was installed in 1985 and commemorates Charles Parsons who developed steam turbines for generating electricity and powering ships - see the Wiki entry LinkExternal link . The designs pressed into the clay are abstracted from Parsons' engineering drawings" Photo by Mike Quinn, 2015, and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.

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    Geograph.org.uk

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    Geograph (Geograph)

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    What does this mean? Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4321643
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 8 years, 2 months ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown

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