Market Woman, High Street, junction with Station Road, Wallsend
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Description
"...The sculpture was commissioned from Hans Schwarz by J Seymour Harris and Partners, developers of the Forum shopping centre which was built in 1966. The resulting bronze statue depicted a female Roman-era figure holding a basket containing chickens on her head; Wallsend stands at the east end of Hadrian’s Wall. Schwarz explained his thinking behind the sculpture in a letter to a local schoolgirl. He said that he was looking for a realism and wanted the woman ‘to appear as a tough, hardworking peasant, not a graceful girl’...." -
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Further information
Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1437357
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 8 years, 2 months ago
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