{"id":783952,"date":"2026-09-27T05:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783952\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T05:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:16:16","slug":"newcastle-peter-rabbit-trail-sculptures-to-be-auctioned-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783952\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Peter Rabbit trail sculptures to be auctioned off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dozens of hand-painted Peter Rabbit sculptures that formed a city trail for the summer are due to be auctioned off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 96 Peter Rabbit sculptures were dotted around Newcastle and North Tyneside for nine weeks, with people encouraged to visit and snap a photo of each one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the beloved Beatrix Potter character was free to view, paid-for activities such as a sticker book and app supported work of the charity St Oswald&#8217;s Hospice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trail was removed earlier this month and the sculptures are due to be auctioned off to raise money for the same charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A ticketed event at Newcastle Civic Centre on 10 and 11 October will bring the sculptures all together for one last time before the auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the artists who painted the character will be on hand to answer questions on the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of hand-painted Peter Rabbit sculptures that formed a city trail for the summer are due to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783953,"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-783952","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\/783952","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=783952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}