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Some described the scene as “spooky” and “freaky”, comparing it to an episode of Doctor Who and questioning whether aliens had landed.<\/p>\n

“It was very creepy,” one local said. “I’ve never seen anything like it before.”<\/p>\n

Lisa Marion and Holly Jones also stopped to take pictures. “I thought I was going mad at first, I had to stop to take a photo,” said Holly.<\/p>\n

The mystery was later explained as part of One Man Army, a travelling sculptural installation by Cheshire-based artist Colin Spofforth.<\/p>\n

The project explores Britain’s lost industrial and social heritage by temporarily placing repeated casts of a single, solemn figure in locations shaped by work and industry. <\/p>\n

Each installation is filmed and shared on social media before moving on, leaving behind images and conversations in the communities it visits.<\/p>\n

The figures were positioned opposite the former steelworks<\/a>, a site built in 1796 that once employed around 2,500 people at its peak. <\/p>\n

Steel production came to an end there in 1990, when 1,100 workers lost their jobs, marking the closure of a major part of the area’s industrial history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some described the scene as “spooky” and “freaky”, comparing it to an episode of Doctor Who and questioning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-241143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}