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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Bilthehut on April 07, 2010, 10:55:28 PM

Title: Where's this?
Post by: Bilthehut on April 07, 2010, 10:55:28 PM

You all seem to have travelled around a bit, so where's this?

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Jack on April 07, 2010, 11:25:03 PM

I'm fairly sure it isn't Grimsby.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Malc on April 08, 2010, 05:00:19 AM

I've seen it before, It's the Conquistador monument in Lisbon

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 08, 2010, 06:24:30 AM

So if you're going to Lisbon, you should go to the loo before you head out.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Bilthehut on April 08, 2010, 06:58:42 AM

Quote from: Malc on April 08, 2010, 05:00:19 AM

I've seen it before, It's the Conquistador monument in Lisbon

Congrats, Malc.  I thought it was impressive, especially the map of the world in front of the monument.

Tag, you're the next photo inputter, Malc.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 08, 2010, 07:41:45 AM

Cue Sydney Opera House.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Jack on April 08, 2010, 01:00:59 PM

It's moderately impressive... until you notice the guy sat at the base of it, whereupon it becomes massively impressive.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Tom on April 08, 2010, 07:34:55 PM

It kind of reminds me of the 'Forward' statue I saw in Birmingham in 1999...

(http://www.birminghamuk.com/BrumFoto/centenary/statue_d2.jpg)
(http://www.birminghamuk.com/BrumFoto/centenary/centpan5.jpg)

It's not as big though.

Sadly, it burned down...

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 08, 2010, 08:05:53 PM

That was truly an ugly monument.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Tom on April 08, 2010, 08:11:29 PM

It looked odd, but I actually got to like it after seeing it nearly every day.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 08, 2010, 08:24:43 PM

I had wallpaper like that once, ugly as heck but grew on me in the end.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Roger Kettle on April 09, 2010, 09:37:52 AM

I quite like the statues near Faro airport in Portugal which show various figures looking skywards. It's probably got a lot to do with the fact that, if I can see them, I'm on holiday.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Malc on April 10, 2010, 11:57:01 AM

That "Forward" monument is truly awful. Bob The Builder is on it.

How did it burn down? Was it made of paper?

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Tom on April 10, 2010, 12:25:00 PM

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39109000/jpg/_39109431_statuefire203.jpg)(http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/features/2003/04/images/statue5.jpg)(http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/features/2003/04/images/statue6.jpg)(http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/features/2003/04/images/statue4.jpg)

I've done some research into this...
It was made of fibre-glass. It was known locally as the Lurpak sculpture as it looked as though it was made of butter. Erected in 1991, it represented the city's early 1990s renaissance. A teenage arsonist destroyed it at 13.30 on Thursday 10th April 2003.

Coincidentally, that's todays date...

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Jack on April 10, 2010, 01:40:44 PM

I'm fairly certain that today's date is actually Saturday 10th April 2010, and not Thursday 10th April 2003 as you claim.

Also, the blackened charred version in the third picture looks a bit more stylish than the original in my opinion. At least, it has more character. Of course, I don't condone arson, and I shudder to think of the fumes given off by the burning fibre-glass.

Title: Re: Where's this?
Post by: Malc on April 11, 2010, 09:03:49 PM

Never thought I'd say this, butI hope the arsonist was never caught.