twb[23] - Fiddler's Green {3 0f 3}

Fiddler's Green or the Fisherman's Memorial.

Dedication plaque, reads :
"Erected by Public Subscription.
To the Memory of those Fishermen
who lost their lives at sea."
"Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore,
you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea" Charles Cook

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A "corten steel" statue, sculpted [welded] by Ray Lonsdale and unveiled in 2017. It was inspired by a photograph taken in 1961 and entitled "The Salt" and forms a memorial to Fishermen from North Shields, mainly those lost at sea, but also those who go to sea no more.