Windborne The Phoenix
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awoodvine
N 53° 01.685 W 002° 11.645
30U E 554049 N 5875698
A feather carved out of stone, one of the many remnants of the 1986 Garden Festival.
Waymark Code: WMKBMJ
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/15/2014
Views: 12
"Windborne The Phoenix", aka The Feather by Keir Smith.
This was commissioned for the 1986 Stoke-On-Trent National Garden Festival, which was the second of only 5 National Garden Festivals in Britain. It was held in the city from 1st May to 26th October 1986, and was opened by the Queen. Preparation of the site involved the reclamation of land formerly occupied by the Shelton Bar steelworks (1830 - 1978).
The area is now a retail, leisure and business park known as Festival Park.
This waymark is close to a footpath but if you don't know it's there you can easily miss it as the carving has it's back facing the path.
Title: Windborne The Phoenix
Artist: Keir Smith
Placement Date: 1986
Type of Object: Feather
Location: Festival Park
Material: Stone
Website: Not listed
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