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Akeld Mews, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0FF

The coastal path uses this route, though there is currently no view of the river nor the sea.

"Watching and Waiting" is another piece of public sculpture, part of the St Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project. Installed in 1993-4, it was created by Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher, Craig Knowles, Chaz Brenchley (1995) out of sandstone and steel. Colin Wilbourn found a reference to ‘Look Out Hill’ on old maps of the area and asked the developers to create a new mound to look out over the Wear. The sculpture features a rug, picnic hamper and folded stool. There is a steel telescope by artist/blacksmith Craig Knowles, set in stone, which was missing in 2010 (see Image) but has now been restored. The steel book features a piece of writing about the sea in the form of a diary by Cahz Brenchley; one of the loose leaves is written in Braille.

There is another view of the sculpture here Image] The open book, cast in steel, tells a story though a diary page dated June 21st by Chaz Brenchley about the picnic site as a point to watch and wait for a son returning from the sea. 'Every day at first light I come up to the point here carrying my basket. This is my situation and I inhabit it. I spread my blanket. I lay out my maps and charts. I erect my telescope and I watch the sea.'

A sculpture by Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher and Craig Knowles installed in 1995. The piece represents items laid out on a (carved stone) rug for a picnic in a viewpoint over the mouth of the River Wear. The tripod originally had a telescope trained on the harbour http://public-art.shu.ac.uk/other/sunderland/fi/00000075.htm but this has gone missing. The sculpture is completed by writing on pages of the open book by Chaz Brenchley Image http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/9514/

For a full account of this sculpture, see Image

I was hoping for a view over the river, but none was available on this stretch.

"Watching and Waiting" is a piece of public sculpture, part of the St Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project. Installed in 1993-4, it was created by Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher, Craig Knowles, Chaz Brenchley (1995) out of sandstone and steel. Colin Wilbourn found a reference to ‘Look Out Hill’ on old maps of the area and asked the developers to create a new mound to look out over the Wear. The sculpture features a map, rug, picnic hamper and folded stool. There is a steel telescope by artist/blacksmith Craig Knowles, set in stone, which was missing in 2010 (see Image) but has now been restored. The steel book features a piece of writing about the sea in the form of a diary by Cahz Brenchley; one of the loose leaves is written in Braille. This image shows the map.

Component of a representation of the solar system at a scale of approximately 1:2,000,000,000. Boards representing the planets are sited at their relative distances along the north bank of the Wear on the final stretch of the Walney to Wear cycle route, starting with the "Second Sun" Image under Wearmouth Bridge and finishing with Pluto (which strictly speaking is now defined as only a "minor planet") at Roker Pier. See also Image

A number of artworks have been placed along the final stretch of the Walney to Wear cycle route along the north bank of the River Wear. A "second sun" is located under Wearmouth Bridge and displays representing the planets have been located ar their relative distances, finishing at "Pluto" on Roker Promenade. For more details about the display itself, see Image Other installations representing the solar system can be seen on the York to Selby Cycle Path Image and, rather less convincingly, in the Almondell and River Calder Country Park to the west of Edinburgh Image