The 'Angel of the North', Low Eighton, County Durham, England

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The ‘Angel of the North’ was constructed in 1998 to the designs of artist Antony Gormley. It stands 66’ high and has a wing-span of 178’ – the steel statue itself weighs 200 metric tonnes, but two to three times that amount of concrete has been used to ensure its stability in a very exposed location. It stands, in fact, on the site of the former Team Colliery (also known as Eighton or Ravensworth Ann Colliery), and is intended in part to commemorate the miners of the north east. Mr. Gormley says on his website:- “The Angel resists our post-industrial amnesia and bears witness to the hundreds and thousands of colliery workers who had spent the last three hundred years mining coal beneath the surface”.

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Size: 5441px × 3613px
Location: Durham Road, Low Eighton, Counry Durham, England
Photo credit: © David Knighton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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