Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Pin OK Oh!

 


The origins of large-scale public sculpture in Halifax go back even further than the magnificent Striding Concrete Man (aka Burdock Way). Who can forget the monumental plastic bowling pin of a decade earlier? Built on a scale to rival Barry's town hall, for much of the sixties it stood like a beacon to cultural imperialism in the land of crown-green bowling. 

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