Statue beside Harrington Marina, near Workington, Cumbria, UK

The surprisingly colourful terraced housing on Rose Hill seems to be at least Victorian, but the nearer, grassed area was cleared in 1966, when the Magnesite Plant was demolished. That, on the site of, and ostensibly still operating as, a major ironworks, secretly extracted 40,000 tons of magnesium from seawater per annum during the Second World War for aircraft and incendiary bombs.

I've been able to find absolutely no information about the sandstone statue itself [See comment below. Thanks, Kitty!], which might suggest that it's less than popular. It depicts a person carrying a huge, toothy fish, but I'm not aware of Harrington, very much an industrial town, having a particular heritage in the fishing industry.

The Cumbrian Coastal Line railway crosses the middle of this photo in a cutting.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Harrington (show map)

Taken on: July 10, 2010

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sea legend

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Sets appears in: • North & West Cumbria

Groups appears in: • Sculpture • Cumbria, England more » • Statues and Sculptures. • Public Sculpture (UK) • Hard Men • Workington, Cumbria • West Cumbria « less

Camera: Canon EOS 450D, f/5.6, 1/80 sec, 50mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 450D
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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