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You only like it because you think it's named after you.:) :)

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£15000 to erect ?
Nice statue and all that but lets be honest, shouldnt the councils be spending the money on more urgent needed projects. Geez, if they got that sort of money spare why dont they donate it to the local hospital towards a scanner or something. :)

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The money is not coming from the Council.



It is coming from the Arts Council (i.e. lottery), Lancashire Economic Partnership (i.e. government money) and private investor (the sculpture will actually be placed on private land) and therefore this project has no real involvement from the council other than they need to pass planning permission.



The Lancashire Telegraph, once again, have taken the slightly sensationalist view. The sculpture in Burnley will be little over 16ft, on a much smaller scale to the one in Somerset.



Serena de la Hey is a well known willow artist and has sculptures all around the world. Mid Pennine Arts were asked, via Forest of Burnley, to come up with some ideas to celebrate the woodlands of the area.

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I seem to recall a 1970's film of a similar name about a similar object...The Wicker Man...I think it starred Edward Woodward. Anyway, It got burnt down at the end of the film.

I'll give this 'un a week before the dingles put it up in flames.

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OMG ! The Wickerman was a film?.. I thought its was an in depth, fly on the wall documentary about Ossie folk!

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1. It looks terrible
2. Will be a distraction for motorists so they wont do it.

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Shouldnt fair to bad if its outwith walking distance of the local hoolies. That said like the Angel of the North it would look better after a lick of paint.

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Mrs Knight, you sounded sexy on the radio this afternoon......Sorry Gayle, I have to agree with our respected friend Tealeaf, it will go up in flames won't it. You'll have the dingles sending out foraging parties for a bit of willow to go with their peat………..Either that or you’ll find then running round naked thinking it was the second coming….:) :D

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Why would the "dingles" put it up in flames??? Its going to be near Crow's Wood in BLACKBURN!!!! No where near Burnley. So its more likely to be little blackburnians, than us "dingles"

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i quite like it, beats the crap out of the panoptican in my book.;)

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MEOW!!! Regaurdless of were it goes some Dick Twirpin will doo away with it. :o

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cant argue with that all i am going to say is iem just glad it isnt our money paying for it , what folk do with their own money is up to them

incidently how much does it cost these days to ensure planning permision ;)

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It is most definitely in Burnley. You may have a Crow Wood in Blackburn but there's one in Burnley.

Multimap link

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...multimap.y=237

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Thank you Doug, I got ambushed by the radio because the Telegraph printed the story this morning because they'd read the planning reports. I am really worried that by printing this they are raising expectations and if it fails planning permission we'll get hammered again.

I really don't like this defeatist attitude that if you build something it's always going to be destroyed. If you give in to that attitude then nothing would ever be achieved. You have to keep building and creating new things and showing the 'dingles' that they can't beat us.

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I don't know i'm just going off what it says on the bbc website it says Blackburn. I live in Ossy so not to sure. My mum did say she thought it was in Blackburn. Oh well, my bad. If i'm wrong i apologise and take it back.

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Why do I have an overpowering need to agree with you on this one.....I take your point Mrs Knight........:)

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Flippin' BBC - I've emailed them to correct it. It is definitely in Burnley.

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Because you know I'm right.......as, of course, I usually am!:)

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So Auntie Beeb cant read a map either. :D Must remember that when they go on about the lack of education in teens again.

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Another fully paid up member of the 'woolly hat' brigade, Serena de la Hey, a plastic name and another plastic idea, who in their right mind would name anyone 'Serena of the Hill'. "this 'sculpture' comprising of willow woven into steel will stand on a hill", in my opinion it should be sunk in 100ft of salt water to be enjoyed by the creatures of the deep. If anyone can show me how to weave willow into steel maybe one will believe it!

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The plot thickens order a bleedin statue and can't make your mind up where to put it, or where it was supposed to be going. Put's one in mind of a horse designed by a committee, they created a 'camel'.

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From the BBC website

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Wow, that was fast action - well done the BBC for changing it quickly to the correct place.

Not like when everyone told Hyndburnlite what was wrong with their site - they still haven't fixed it!

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There has been absolutely no indecision about where to put it. We were asked to commission it by the owners of the land so it's always been going on their land IN BURNLEY!

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Erm, isn't that how most names have been developed - Wilkinson was Wilkins son, Knight was a Knight and Fletcher was the job the father did - so Serena of the Hill is a pretty normal name.

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Burnley? good grief A goalkeeper would have been more use than a lump of scrap steel 'interwoven' with firewood to Burnley, I'll give it a fortnight before the 'thing' is the pile of rubbish, the best 'scrappers in the world are in Burnley.

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If it is in burnley it will be chavved up with some nice grafiti pretty quickly as those dingles do like to practise their As and Bs at any chance they get.

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It would look better on top of Hambledon to warn off the dingles...Actually if it was done right it would look good.

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Well, it's arrived. There was never any doubt about where it would be and it was put in position late last week.

Go and take a look for yourself. It's about 18ft high and has two posts next to it - over the coming years the planting around the posts will grow up the posts until it looks as though the man is immerging from the forest.

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Where exactly is it?

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Can you see it from the motorway?

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i thoink it will look good

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Quite like the look of this.
There are similar willow sculptures at Wycoller, near Pendle.

Is it possible to walk up to it and if so, does anyone have any directions to it from the M65 please?

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It's in a field next to the motorway fence and Crowood Leisure at junction 11, it's as you get to the top of the slip of the road going on to the M65 at J11.

If you want to get to it ( not sure if you can walk right up to it) it's a pain from Accy because it's the junction you can't get off at eastbound, the one near Asda. You either need to drive through Burnley centre and go to the roundabout for the motorway at J11, or go through to J12 and come back on yourself. It is quite striking and you won't miss it if you go on the M65 :)

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This is him in place :)

http://i21.tinypic.com/103yix5.jpg

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Cheers Lancsdave, for the directions and the picture.

Will have to get over and take a look.

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Thanks for that lancsdave will have to head down and have a look.

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Or that an elephant is merely a mouse built to govt. specifications:rolleyes:

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But many think that there is nothing better than a little head:D