A tall narrow hexagonal column representing various key aspects of Llandudno's history using materials which have relevance to each particular time band. The aim was to provide a vehicle for an historical narrative in the form of a vertical timeline. The Llandudno Millennium Sculpture was selected by public vote during an exhibition of shortlisted artists proposals. The work is a centrepiece for the £2.4m redevelopment of North Western Gardens. From the top of the sculpture downwards: crown – a veiled reference to Llandudno 'Queen of Welsh Resorts'; water and wave design, sun motif – future optimism; North Wales theatre – Welsh National Opera, October Fest; Llandudno's second pier – built in 1875 and example of Victorian confidence in the future; railway – arrived in 1858 bringing people from Northern England; promenade of hotels facing the bay – St Georges Hotel, first hotel, built in 1854; eighteenth-century Llandudno – a collection of copper miner's cottages perched high on Orme; a strong Christian presence – Llan, church, Tudno, the name of the founding sixth-century saint, palace of medieval bishops; Viking raids in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries; Roman presence – coins and pottery from the reign of Aurelian AD 270 have been found on the Orme; Bronze Age copper mining – prehistoric mining for copper ore going back to 1800 BC; tropical seas – 300 million years ago the Llandudno area was a warm shallow sea.