...to think we'll soon be swamped with statues?

[EvilTiggyD]

Every week there's another statue(or stone/plaque/other) unveiled to somebody good or to mark a memorable thing, but I've never seen or heard about any statues being taken away. They tend to be quite solid, long-lasting things, so won't the country end up knee deep in these things eventually? I know some get nicked for scrap but they generally get replaced on principle.

I think it's a very, very slow disaster happening. People should stop worrying about immigrants and start worrying about statues.

Is there an old statue graveyard? Retirement home?
What does happen to them?

Statue parks. I think theres one in yorkshire where the henry moore ones can run free. (I love henry moore). Maybe they can round out older ones and set them lose in other parks....

Just don't blink.....

But the statue parks will be full one day too!

Did anyone else read "Marianne dreams" as a child and shit a brick ?

This is what happened on Easter Island. They ended up using all their resources for statues so they all died out.

We doomed i say doomed!

Statue parks. I think theres one in yorkshire where the henry moore ones can run free.

Londonrach!!!! Trying to imagine that now!!!!!

I am thinking of those statues in the Dr who thing called 'blink'. The first time I walked through a cemetery after watching it - I suddenly noticed how many angel statues there where!

Sorry brainwashed - just seen your post!

Death being silly sorry its monday...

Well, a fortune cookie told me to be kind to pigeons 'cos a statue would be made of me one day so can we wait until my statue is made before we start chucking them in a statue playpen??

they do take down old ones, and bronzes get melted down. but that doesn't make the news (saw it on telly one day)

I think you have actually noticed the stealth invasion of The Weeping Angels Tiggy.

oh yes OwlWearingSunglasses, I read Marianne dreams when i was young - it was very dark

Difficult choice here:

Do you go with 'don't even blink' in case it's weeping angels?

Or keep your eyes firmly closed in case it's Medusa?

What AuntieStella just said. Mind. Blown.

... We're screwed either way, aren't we?

Saucy - I can understand a lot of art being melted down. Around where I live there seems to be an outbreak of folded metal shapes which, at the risk of being called Phyllis Stein, is all shit. It's the obscure writers and war heroes and historical plaques. Do they get rid of those too?

It's a sculpture park in Yorkshire - it's called The Yorkshire Sculpture Park!!
No statues or anything that looks like an actual person so unless you are scared of being chased by a huge chair carved from fallen branches or 3 anatomically correct giant men type shapes you should be safe

"It's a sculpture park in Yorkshire - it's called The Yorkshire Sculpture Park!!" - I hope they paid a creative agency somewhere a lot of money to come up with that name.

Aren't our statues something to cherish for our descendants? We have palaces, castles, follies, beautiful gardens like Sissinghurst and Wakehurst, blue plaques on buildings, war memorials, ancient walls from 2000 years ago, Roman mosaics and dinosaur skeletons in museums. Why should statues be less patriotically valuable in this green and pleasant land?

In one of Lindsey Davis's Falco stories, it emerges that lots of the "statues" around were just heads, replaced on generic bodies in order to save effort and materials (and not to waste an entire statue when someone went out of favour)!

Sorry, I should add that was ancient Rome, with some of the statue output in question dating to classical Greek times.

Posting so I can come back later and work out what I am missing.....

I visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park yesterday. Very nice it was, if not a little to busy for my liking. There was one sculpture that I thought was a real person when I first saw her from a distance.

So maybe one day we'll have Nelson's head chiselled of his columned body and replaced with Sir Bruce Forsythe? Is that what you're saying?