A Screen In the woods at Wallington

My entry was for PPAC#46 although I’ve just realised the pics may not meet the criterion as you have to pay to get into Wallington, it’s a National Trust property.

From the other side

Lion with Supper

My entry for PPAC

I cannot tell you anything about this except that I saw it in Nice in 2018

Figures for PPAC#44

For PPAC this week I have a giant Darth Vader made from Lego and a scarecrow.

PPAC#43

Seen on a wall in Valencia 2020. I like how the shadow of tree lies.

PPAC#42

Paddington looks a bit grumpy here at Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street

Dragon Heads

My entry for PPAC #41

According to the National Trust website the dragons at Wallington were once part of a group of sculptures that stood on top of one of the gates that guarded the City of London, Bishopsgate. Too narrow for London’s growing traffic, the gate was demolished only thirty years after its erection in the 1730s.

Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, the owner of the Wallington estate, bought the dragons as architectural salvage, along with other bits of sculpture and shipped them as ballast on a coal barge up the coast to Newcastle.

They were placed in their present locations in 1928. They are Grade II* Listed Buildings protected by law.

PPAC#39

Hetton Lyons Country Park

Poor man has lost his head. Wharton Park.

I thought I would include a boat in a bottle from my archives as Masha’s theme is old boats [London Maritime Museum]

PPAC#38

Wooden archway sculpture at Barnes Park, Sunderland

PPAC #37

A snowman at Wharton Park, Durham

Decorative firepits at Seaton Delaval Hall

Parsons’ Polygon

My entry for PPAC#36

Brick & fired tiles on a 3m high x 2.2m wide hexagonal structure with a sloping roof decorated as a tribute to Charles Algemon Parsons by David Hamilton in 1985. Serves as a ventilation shaft for Monument Metro Station in Newcastle upon Tyne.