A series of seven stone sheep sculptures in Shipley have been named by local schoolchildren.<\/p>\n
Glenda, after Shipley Glen, Penny, after the nearby South Pennines, and Titus in honour of Sit Titus Salt are among the selected names.<\/p>\n
One of the ewes is called Noor to celebrate the local South Asian community, and the lambs are Barbara, Ewe-nity and Hockney, celebrating the life of Bradford artist David Hockney, who died earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Chair of Shipley Town Council, Rhona North, said: “The names have all been so carefully considered and we were delighted by all the wonderful suggestions.”<\/p>\n
Children at Saltaire Primary School, Wycliffe CE Primary School, Shipley CE Primary School and St Walburga’s Catholic Primary School submitted their ideas to Bradford Council and the town council.<\/p>\n
The sheep were installed in Market Square in March, having been carved out of limestone by sculptor Dan Jones.<\/p>\n
The installation was inspired by the town’s name, which is derived from the Old English for sheep pasture.<\/p>\n
Shipley Towns Fund chair Gill Thornton said the sculptures were a “beautiful reflection” of the town’s heritage, and their names represented the area’s history and future.<\/p>\n
“They are such an appealing feature and have been so well-received,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of seven stone sheep sculptures in Shipley have been named by local schoolchildren. Glenda, after Shipley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-567936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}