Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion
Wild Weeds Campion

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The sculpture is one of a series depicting plants that grow along the edges of the Nutbrook Trail. The Nutbrook Trail runs from this point in Long Eaton to Heanor, and forms Sustrans route 67. For part of its length it follows the disused Nutbrook Canal.
Title

Wild Weeds Campion

Date

2001

Medium

steel

Measurements

H 250 x W 100 x D 100 cm

Accession number

DE75_HC_S020

Acquisition method

commissioned by Sustrans

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

Sustrans

Custodian

Sustrans

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

2001

Access

at all times

Inscription description

plaque: WILD WEEDS / CAMPION / HILARY CARTMEL AND MICHAEL JOHNSON / 2001 / THE NUTBROOK TRAIL WAS STARTED IN 1993 / AND RUNS FROM / LONG EATON TO HEANOR / THE PROJECT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED WITH SUPPORT FROM / THE FOLLOWING PARTNERS / GROUNDWORK EREWASH VALLEY / AMBER VALLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL/ SUSTRANS DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL / YORKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY TRUST / EAST MIDLANDS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY / EAST MIDLANDS ARTS; around the base: The industrial England / blots out the agricultural / England. One meaning / blots out another / D H Lawrence / the hall stood serenely spread out, / winking its Georgian panes as if / cheerfully. Light alive shapen elegant. / Had the miners not made him rich! // One England blots out another. / The mines had made the halls wealthy / Now they were blotting them out / As they had already blotted out the cottages

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Located at

Dog Kennel Lane, Shipley

DE75 7JQ

On the Nutbrook Trail just after the end of Dog Kennel Lane.