Dockwray Square, statue of Stan Laurel

HER Number

10901

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Dockwray Square, statue of Stan Laurel

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Commemorative

Site Type: Broad

Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific

Commemorative Monument

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

1994. A statue of early film comedian Stan Laurel, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Cumbria in 1890. Stan Laurel lived at No. 8 Dockwray Square from 1897 to 1901. The statue shows him in comic pose, scratching his head, with bowler hat in hand. The statue stands in a fenced and gated park.

Easting

436000

Northing

568430

Grid Reference

NZ436000568430

Sources

Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 83; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 156; North Tyneside Council and Nexus, North Shields Heritage Trail, board 12 'High Town'