Weavers Fields

This very unusual sculpture sits in Weavers Fields, just off Bethnal Green Road.   Here's the blurb:


This is the Weaving Identities sculpture, installed in Weavers Fields, Bethnal Green in 2003. Tower Hamlets Council commissioned the piece to celebrate the area's sporting culture, and a quartet of athletic figures duly share its plinth. A helical band twists up through the central axis, representing the silk-weaving trade that once flourished hereabouts. The base is built from 400 bricks, crafted by school children. All good local stuff, for good local people.

The sculpture, by Peter Dunn, cost £70,000. The price tag was well worth it, for the assemblage serves double-duty as London's most elegant CCTV mast.


Yes, folks, the UK is the European CCTV capital and this is London's best decorated surveillance camera.