Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Sculpture group representing a crouching jeu-de-boules Frenchman and a Yorkshire family of three watching. (one of the figures was modelled on Alan Swift, President of Northern Petanque).

The group was unveiled on 9 November 2000 by Pierre Mauroy, mayor of Lille, Leeds' twin city, at the occasion of the the annual Northern Pétanque Colliers CRE Cup.

VOILÀ! GIVEN TO LEEDS by the SCURRAH WAINWRIGHT CHARITY 2000 to encourage the playing of boules in bond court sculptor roger burnett morris singer founder

Sculptor

• Roger Burnett, British sculptor in Sowerby Bridge, at present in Dominica (Blog).

Sources & Information

• Leeds-List, The Leeds Welcome Art Trail.
• Stride, C.B., F.E. Thomas, and J.P. Wilson, From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project.

Tags

• Town: Leeds
• County: West Yorkshire
• Subdivision: Yorkshire & Humberside
• Country: Great Britain
• Burnett, Roger
• Family
• Pétanque player
• Singer / Morris Singer / William Morris (London)
• Town twinning monument

Locatie (N 53°47'52" - W 1°32'53") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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