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« on: October 09, 2017, 09:22:23 PM »
Saw this in Oxford this afternoon. In the middle of a posh housing development backing onto the canal. Was there a parts factory there? Or maybe a tribute to the Morris factory at Cowley, although that's miles away.
Certainly different.
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2017, 09:22:58 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2017, 07:04:43 PM »
They definitely look too much like the real thing to be a sculptor's own design. Perhaps she or he had been working on a car before crafting them and it was a subliminal thing.  Huh  Cheesy

I did quickly look to see if there was a link anywhere on the web but not that I could find in 5 mins. Like you say, it could be linked to Morris. His country house was Nuffield Place but that is in Huntercombe near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Was that anywhere near where you were?
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2017, 08:39:31 PM »
No, just wandering along the canal towpath that skirts around the city centre. The full monument also features a pair of curtains & seating, including concrete cushions. Bizarre.

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What, the curtains?   Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2017, 01:34:31 AM »
Very surreal. You'd think they would be documented somewhere on the web.  Practically everything else is!  Shocked
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2017, 08:22:14 AM »
No inscription that I could see either.
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