Cruddas Park, 'Untitled'

HER Number

11119

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Cruddas Park, 'Untitled'

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This bronze abstract, some 4m high, was by Ken Ford. It was unveiled in 1962 by Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, as part of the landscaping scheme for the Cruddas Park development (six high-rise blocks around an open space). It was removed in 1975 for urgent repairs to its base, but never replaced.

Easting

423330

Northing

563560

Grid Reference

NZ423330563560

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 220; City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1960, Competition for a Work to be Placed in the Redeveloped Cruddas Park; Evening Chronicle, 11 April 1975; Journal, Newcastle, 31 July 1993