{"id":720167,"date":"2026-07-31T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:35:18","slug":"blackburns-240k-town-centre-sculptures-being-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720167\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn&#8217;s \u00a3240k town centre sculptures being delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The three sculptures &#8211; Boll, Mercer and Gin &#8211; were the work of artist Ian Randall, and were part of five \u201cTransition\u201d pieces, which symbolised the growth of Blackburn as a town built on the cotton industry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Three of the sculptures on Church Street, Blackburn, October 2002 (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The \u00a3240,000 sculptures &#8211; commissioned by Blackburn with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/darwen\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Darwen<\/a> Council with the help of European grant money- each depicted a different stage in the life of a blooming cotton plant\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Only one of the three pieces could be installed on the day due to \u2018technical problems\u2019. Work was completed in the following days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three sculptures &#8211; Boll, Mercer and Gin &#8211; were the work of artist Ian Randall, and were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}