Public Art

You know, those odd pieces of sculpture that your local council place in the town to give it some class. Newbury has some of those pre-rusted steel statues on a roundabout. Well, as an ex-Alfa owner, the sight of a large rusty thing does not give me a warm feeling, but each to their own, eh?
Meanwhile, in Florence a decade ago, these are examples the large stone items that waited around every corner. I think perhaps these have more style.





In Halifax, they have the Wainhouse Tower. This was started as a chimney in a town of Cotton Mills and chimneys, but it was changed to a tower, and eventually illuminated by the council.

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