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Oh, and more on the history of the wooden dollies here: fabulousnorth.com/blog/wooden-...
Wooden Dollies of North Shields
The Wooden Dollies are fairly well known to most visitors to North Shields but do you know how they came about?
fabulousnorth.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Oh, and more on the history of the wooden dollies here: fabulousnorth.com/blog/wooden-...
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The statue is the work of Keith Barrett, an artist working in Shields for decades, responsible for, amongst other public art, the incidental and playful installations in “the triangle”, Shields’ only homezone.
keithbarrett.co.uk/north-shield...
keithbarrett.co.uk/north-shield...
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The statue is the work of Keith Barrett, an artist working in Shields for decades, responsible for, amongst other public art, the incidental and playful installations in “the triangle”, Shields’ only homezone.
keithbarrett.co.uk/north-shield...
keithbarrett.co.uk/north-shield...
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The wooden dolly trapped in the library used to stand on this now empty plinth, looking down Howard St to the river and, now, Mary Ann Macham’s statue.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The wooden dolly trapped in the library used to stand on this now empty plinth, looking down Howard St to the river and, now, Mary Ann Macham’s statue.