Fallen Face - Satellite Odddity - Cardiff, Capitol of Wales.
N 51° 27.788 W 003° 09.757
30U E 488703 N 5701341
This sculpture is a Maritime Memorial - Featured on Virtual Globetrotting - The abstract sculpture has two distinct aspects, a timeless fallen face, & a beached shipwreck hull. Located in front of the Welsh Parliament building, Cardiff Bay, Wales
Waymark Code: WMQR4W
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/22/2016
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The Sculpture sits in a circular mosaic, inscribed :- "IN MEMORY OF THE MERCHANT SEAFARERS FROM THE PORTS OF BARRY PENARTH CARDIFF WHO DIED IN TIMES OF WAR"
"Tiger Bay and Butetown provided a high proportion of Cardiff's merchant seamen and in 1994, the Merchant Navy Memorial Committee began campaigning for a monument to the many killed in war. Brought up on his father's stories of life as a wartime merchant seafarer, Brian Fell sought out Britain's last hydraulic riveting workshop and learnt this disappearing skill in order to 'seam' steel sections into the sculpture's two distinct aspects - a timeless face and beached ship's hull.' The memorial won the Lord Mayor's Civic Award 1997."
Taken from the book :- 'The Bay and other Artwalks'
Visit Instructions:
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