Staggering
Today's image is of a statue in Maidstone called "The Stag". It was designed by a sculptor called Edward Bainbridge Copnall, is 21 foot tall and made of aluminium.
It originally stood in Stag Place near Victoria in London from 1963 until 1997 after which the sculptor's daughter, Jill Neff, donated it to the town of Sevenoaks in Kent. However, they were unable to find a home for it so it was sold to Maidstone Borough Council for only £2000 (much to the ire of Sevenoaks residents who believed the sculpture's true worth to be £250,000).
It was eventually unveiled in Maidstone in 2004 at the Lockmeadow complex next to the River Medway as part of the Kent Millennium Walk development project.
It is actually a bit of an unprepossessing site between a footbridge and a leisure centre and to me it feels like it has been slightly forgotten.
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