Waiting for me Dad

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I have just started a thread about a bridge in the Transport forum and it reminded me of a series of images that I made in August 2019 adjacent to the bridge. The sculpture is a bronze by locally born artist Mackenzie Thorpe, titled "Waiting for me Dad" . It depicts two children waiting for their father (hence the title) to return from work on the other side of the river.

I made the series for some friends who emigrated to Christchurch New Zealand. There is another bronze by the same artist in Christchurch, which we visited with them in 2017.

#1 Side View



#2 Full frontal



#3 Looking at the Bridge



#4 The Bridge

[Bill53]

Excellent set Peter.

Bill.

[John Liddle]

Great images Peter - particularly like No. 4 - in my view even better than the night-time view you have posted under the Transport thread.

Brings back fond memories of the adventure of going across the Runcorn & Widnes Transporter - happy days!

[Trev B]

Lovely set Peter --- Tell I'm thick, but how do you get up onto the bridge

[ST-EOS]

Lovely set Peter --- Tell I'm thick, but how do you get up onto the bridge

Trev, in the third image you can see the steps going up the right hand side leg. However cars/pedestrians traffic cross the bridge on a gondola which trundles across the river. You can just make out the curved roof of the gondola in front of the statue in image three. I believe the recently added glass sided lift is visible inside the RHS leg at ground level, though it may be difficult to spot due to the size of this image.
In the last image the gondola suspension cables that connect it to the rolling gear on the bridge upper span can be seen between the structure legs on the image right side.

[Trev B]

Trev, in the third image you can see the steps going up the right hand side leg. However cars/pedestrians traffic cross the bridge on a gondola which trundles across the river. You can just make out the curved roof of the gondola in front of the statue in image three. I believe the recently added glass sided lift is visible inside the RHS leg at ground level, though it may be difficult to spot due to the size of this image.

Got it - Certainly keep you fit running up and down there

[tesarver]

Lovely set

Tom