{"id":591811,"date":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591811\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","slug":"sole-searching-over-origins-of-crimdon-mystery-shoe-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591811\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole-searching over origins of Crimdon &#8216;mystery&#8217; shoe art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mystery surrounds the origins of a piece of coastal artwork featuring shoe soles nailed to a large wooden pole in the sand dunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jayne Gray regularly walks along Crimdon beach, near Hartlepool, and came across the sculpture before posting on social media to ask if anyone knew its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Locals have named it the &#8220;lost soles&#8221; art but nobody seems to know who put it there or when it was erected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local parish council Monk Hesleden said it did not know the origins of the sculpture and asked to people to come forward if they knew anything about the curious structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gray, 61, said shoe soles washed up along the beach all the time because families used to dump household waste into the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Shoe leather, sea glass and even conveyor belts from the old colliery wash up along the beach,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mystery surrounds the origins of a piece of coastal artwork featuring shoe soles nailed to a large wooden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591812,"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-591811","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\/591811","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=591811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}