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Memory and the Tideline

By  Simon Read 2006

Simon Read

Dimensions
14 granite circular slabs each 75cm diam

Courtesy of
Borough of Poole, Environment Agency

Copestones for pillars along the flood defense wall on Poole town quay. Celebrating the history of the town as evidence left behind on the tideline, carved into granite as bas-relief.
S R Simon Read

Portrait II

Boulters Weir

Seamarks, Woodbridge Haven Buoy No 2

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