Each of these cast-iron statues weighs 650kg and is a cast of their creator, the artist, Antony Gormley.<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>From Waterloo Marina, with its caf\u00e9 and lake with swans, scramble over the dunes<\/a> to get to this two-mile stretch of beach. Search for sea holly, cranesbill and evening primrose seeded by the wind in this ever-shifting landscape. The tide moves around Gormley\u2019s figures, now corroded by seawater and colonised by barnacles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You may also like:<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Look far and wide across the sea to the Wirral and hills of North Wales. And watch the final golden embers of the sun slip into the sea before twilight beckons the stars.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Linda Sage Published: Thursday, 07 July 2022 at 12:00 am And there they are. Surreal. Magical. Mesmerising. One hundred figures dotted along the shore gazing out to sea, full of hope and expectation, withstanding the ebb and flow of the tide.\u00a0 Each of these cast-iron statues weighs 650kg and is a cast of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17687,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside.png",2087,1330,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside-300x191.png",300,191,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside-768x489.png",768,489,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside-1024x653.png",800,510,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside-1536x979.png",1536,979,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/07\/day-out-crosby-beach-merseyside-2048x1305.png",2048,1305,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Linda Sage Published: Thursday, 07 July 2022 at 12:00 am And there they are. Surreal. Magical. Mesmerising. One hundred figures dotted along the shore gazing out to sea, full of hope and expectation, withstanding the ebb and flow of the tide.\u00a0 Each of these cast-iron statues weighs 650kg and is a cast of their…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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