18 Nov 2015
A STATUE of a human rights leader created by a sculptor from Stoke on Trent has become a new focus for civil protest in America.
On Wednesday 18th November, the statue of Frederick Douglass, a former slave as well as an eminent campaigner in the abolition movement...
2 Oct 2015
Statues of The Beatles are set to be installed on Liverpool’s waterfront.
During the summer it was revealed that the Cavern Club is paying £200,000 for the 8ft tall bronzes of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The club said it was donati...
8 Jan 2015
The Independant Thursday 8th January 2015
3 Dec 2013
The Ali Center, Louisville, Kentucky and the great Muhammad Ali and his family are world institutions and epitomize all that we respect and hold highest. The beauty and values of this foremost hero is a torch that leads the way for all humanity.
In August 2009, we had...
8 Jan 2013
It was July 1914, three weeks before war was declared; Steve Bloomer had travelled to Berlin to coach Berlin Britannia Football Club by way of a personal invitation from The Kaiser. He was the most famous footballer there had ever been and his fame had spread overseas....
7 Jan 2013
Launched in May 2010, the aim of the Jimmy & Jack Memorial Fund was to once and for all create a statue for Jimmy Sirrel and Jack Wheeler. The fund formed a committee May 2010 whose role is to ensure the management of the fund and to co-ordinate and manage a campaign....
18 May 2012
The Staffordshire Saxon began with an article published in The Sentinel back in March 2009 which championed the idea of using the discovery of The Staffordshire Hoard as a force for good in the region.
That article suggested a public art project in the form of a sculpt...
11 Feb 2012
The Staffordshire Saxon was unveiled at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent on the 18th May 2012 before an audience of politicians, business leaders, civic dignitaries and Sentinel readers.
The giant warrior was funded by Stoke-on-Trent City Council an...
8 Jan 2012
“On the one hand, there stood slavery, a stern reality, glaring frightfully upon us – its robes already crimsoned with the blood of millions… On the other hand… under the flickering light of the north star… stood a doubtful freedom – half frozen – beckoning us to come...
4 Jan 2011
by Sir Geoff Hurst
Born and raised in Denton, Sir Geoff, the only man to have scored three goals in a World Cup final came back to his roots in January 2011 and travelled to the Roy Oldham Sports Village, off Richmond Street in Ashton-under-Lyne, to see the bronze cele...
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