Redburn Dene, 'Play Area'
Redburn Dene, 'Play Area'
HER Number
11185
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Redburn Dene, 'Play Area'
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Site Type: Broad
Sculpture
Site Type: Specific
Sculpture
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
1995 by Richard Broderick and Graham Robinson for Northern Freeform. Off Howdon Road at the north end of the Dene. A mock playground with colourful concrete sculptures of cars, buses and a castle set within a wooden fence. The floorscape is set with mosaics. At the south end there is a mound with a silver chimney-like column with a fibreglass figure of a child on top, which points out to sea between the two piers.
Easting
434800
Northing
567400
Grid Reference
NZ434800567400
Sources
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 164