Category: Sculptures
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Statues In Budapest.
I’m back home in the UK and going through all the photos on my phone. There’s a lot. While I’m working on a couple of other things about Budapest I’ll drop of a few photos of various statues that I encountered in the city. This statue called Mother Earth by Nandor Wagnor is by Buda…
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Fiume Road Cemetery, Budapest.
Regular readers willl know that whenever I visit a new city the two things I seek out are Old Cinemas or Cemeteries. Budapest, oddly, has no old, abandoned, repurposed or derelict cinemas. All of the cinemas in the city are either newish and operated by the Cinema City comany or still standing from the 80’s.…
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Memento Park, Budapest.
It was a bright day when I started out. Sure I’d seen a very red sky at sunrise but dismissed this completely. I’d read about Memento Park several times but never made it the last time I was in Budapest as it seemed a little far if I wasn’t driving. I had no idea how…
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George Fullard. Sculptures, Sheffield.
George Fullard was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1923. He studied art at the Sheffield College of Art from 1938 to 42. Fullard joined the Army during the second world war and he was badly injured at the battle for Cassino. Upon his return to Civilian life Fullard then studied at Royal College of…
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The Crucible Fountain. Sheffield.
At the bottom end of the Moor in Sheffield lies this sad looking forgotten sculpture. It’s given name is The Crucible (or Crucible Fountain), though most people refer to it as The Moorfoot Sculpture. It was commissioned by the Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment, and was erected in front of the Manpower Services…
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