Just a 20 minutes or so drive from my house lies Crosby Beach.
The beach stretches about 3 miles North-West from the Seaforth Dock in the Port of Liverpool, through Waterloo (where it separates the sea from the Marina) up past Crosby Swimming Baths and beyond the coastguard station in Blundellsands to the estuary of the River Alt.
It is the permanent home of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometers of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea.
Contractors spent three weeks lifting the figures into place and driving them into the beach on the-metre-high foundation piles.
Photo by Nam June Paik
What are they all looking at?
What are they all waiting for?
What's out there miles out to sea?
Recently my family and I had the pleasure of walking amongst these statues and watching them slowly disappear as the tide crept in.
Antony Gormey's artwork is as beautiful and mysterious as it is surreal.
Photo by themagiceye
Another Place is one heck of another place in this theme park I call Great Britain.
Recommended.