Chirton Dene, 'The Tide is Turning'
Chirton Dene, 'The Tide is Turning'
HER Number
11184
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Chirton Dene, 'The Tide is Turning'
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
1994 by Alec Peever and writer Linda France. A metal relief texts in an artificial pond at the south end of the Dene: "THE TIDE IS TURNING". And a retaining wall with soft yellow stone tablets which each carries a word from the following quotation: "IF WATER WERE WORDS WHAT WOULD THE TYNE SAY?".
Easting
434700
Northing
567400
Grid Reference
NZ434700567400
Sources
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 163-4