View Map. The foreshore is easy to reach by public transport via three railway stations served by Merseyrail - Waterloo, Blundellsands and Crosby or Hall Road - and a range of bus services. Ring the Merseytravel Traveline for more information on 22 Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre , Crosby The centre which opened in is one of the UK's premier full accessible venues for water sports and provides a range of learning and recreational facilities.
Waterloo Heritage Trail , Waterloo The aim of a heritage trail is to promote an awareness of the architectural and historical development of the urban environment. Skip To Main Content. Follow Us E-Sign Up. Request Brochure Enewsletter Sign Up. About Another Place is an art installation on the coast. TripAdvisor Traveller Rating:. Recent Reviews: jameswWYA. Beautiful beach ,long walk by the beach ,it is amazing art work.
Beach area nice and clean ,lots of dog walkers ,runners ,will go back again Read full review. Iconic art installation that does not disappoint. The installation is amazing with each of the statues dotted over a couple of miles of beautiful Sandy beach. Best time to enjoy them is sunset when they face out to the sea on the west coast Read full review. They provide an interesting foreground towards excellent views towards Liverpool, Wales and the open sea.
As a family they promoted Ever the perfectionist, he insisted on overseeing the job after noticing to his considerable displeasure that the team had not reset the 51 statues at exactly the right angle.
Whether the geologists accept the Anthropocene as a geological era or not, these are fossils of our species — … I think they will still be around in 1, years and maybe longer. Rescuing and resetting the kg figures was not easy, said Gormley. Some of the GPS coordinates marking the spots where the statues were supposed to be were wrong, and the team had to deploy a metal detector to find them again.
Some were said to be four metres below the mud, but he believes it was more like a metre. All of the barnacles were then removed carefully so that the men could be repositioned at the right angle and welded to their new, sturdier bases.
Working on the quicksand-prone beach made the operation very difficult, he added. Each figure weighs kg 0. To see them all together is an impressive sight. The initial plan was for the work to keep moving to different sites it has already lived in Germany, Norway and Belgium , but upon arriving here it was quickly agreed that the iron men had found their true home. See them for yourself in Crosby, 20 minutes by train from Liverpool Central, itself just over 2 hours from London by rail.
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