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    Arrow How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens - ARCHIVE

    From wikipedia

    Dream is a sculpture, a piece of public art, near St Helens, Merseyside, England.

    Dream was designed by the Spanish artist and sculptor Jaume Plensa as part of The Big Art Project organised by the television company Channel 4 in 2009. It is sited on an old slag heap of Sutton Manor Colliery which closed in 1991 and it overlooks the M62 motorway. It consists of an enlongated white structure 20 metres (66 ft) tall, weighing 500 tons, which has been carved to resemble the head and neck of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation. The structure is coated in sparkling white Spanish dolomite, as a contrast to the coal which used to be mined here. It cost nearly £1.9 million and it is hoped it will become as powerful a symbol in North West England as Antony Gormley's Angel of the North is in North East England.
    So, 20 metres, not the tallest, but it is nontheless impressive as you walk around the bend in the stone track and it's looking straight at you.

    From the moment that me and Stoka heard it was being built, we decided to get on top of it, and today, i did

    It was raining, and grey, so no-one's going to be there are they. Wrong. The adage that "no-one ever looks up" was proved wrong today, as everyone did, and called the police. I had been up top for about 5-10 mins when Spark called me. "Do you realise exactly how far away you can be seen?" He was driving to liverpool down the M62. "Erm, kinda", "Fucking miles".

    So call ended, sirens started. lol. Saw them coming, just one car, so I made my way down and started to pack the gear away, waiting for them to get there. A better couple of coppers I couldn't have asked for, who ended up giving me a piece of advice. "Next time you're going to do something like this, try giving us a call so that when everyone starts phoning up, we know it's not a suicide jumper"

    Anyway, on with the pictures, in no particular order.














    Can you spot Spark?





    And just for the record. I wasn't the first Over & I went last week, at 5 in the morning and did it. I didn't make it to the top, due to a severe attack of the shithouse.

    This is as far as I got.

    It felt like the rope was just about to slip of the front of the face, so I came back down in shame.

    Over then once again showed me how it's done.


    So. Big props to Over. He really is the man

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    That is fantastic, great pictures and nice to hear the coppers were nice. Well done

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    Oh yeah, i forgot and was just reminded on nwex. lol.

    I'm barefoot. I didn't want to leave any boot marks, lol.

    I even took a scrubbing brush in case it was marked, so i could clean it off.

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    Quote Originally Posted by Mexico75 View Post
    Nice one bud, about time someone did somthing worthwile with that massive waste of taxpayers money it looks fooking ridiculous
    It was actually funded by channel four's the big art project, or so I believe anyway.

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    dude that is sweet!!! really good job!! I'm a climber but you've got more balls than me for doin that, i'd contstantly be thinking the rope would slip off at any minute!!
    Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'holy shit, what a ride!'

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    Are we in Yorkshire? I thought Settle was above Blackburn?

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    Smile Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    That's pretty ace! Good on ya & Over for doing this! Decent coppers too so that's a bonus.

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    I go past it loads of times.
    Take a look at it from the m62 near the "sutton manor forest" sign, it looks like a giant cock from that angle bet the planners didnt see that one

    Great cred for climbing it tho.
    Saviour of the sporran

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    lol!! Amazing! Going to drive down to this after work one night this week (only down the road) I WONT be attempting that though!!

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    Hats off to you, my man. You have balls of steel.

    And very thoughtful too!

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    Default Re: How to get ahead in SRT 23/06/2009 Dream - St. Helens

    Fantastic stuff, well done both of you. I saw this for the first time a few weeks back and think it's great

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