Citadel East, 'Locomotive'

HER Number

11120

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Citadel East, 'Locomotive'

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A galvanised steel relief of George Stephenson's early locomotive, attached to a pedestrian overpass above the road by Charles Sansbury, October 1971. It was commissioned by Costain Property Investments Ltd to decorate the side of the Puffing Billy Pub. Killingworth Township was opened in 1972 but by 1986 the towers were being demolished and the shopping centre was pulled down after arson attacks. The sculpture must have been removed around this time.

Easting

427820

Northing

571230

Grid Reference

NZ427820571230

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 220; Killingworth Development Group Newsletter, 2 November 1971; Northern Echo, 22 May 1971; Journal, Newcastle, 4 October 1971 and 22 October 1987