The 'Angel of the North' is a giant steel sculpture created by Anthony Gormley in 1998 for Gateshead near Newcastle. The steel angel is 20 meters tall and 54 meters wide. The angel placed here symbolises the use of the land below for coal mines and to express the new information age. The steel angel has been drilled into the ground 33 meters so that it will withstand the wind and gravity. In total, it cost £800,000 to create. The sculpture is an icon of Tyne & Wear and the north of England.
Getting photographs of the angel with a bright and overcast sky was particularly difficult.
Have you ever seen the Angel of the North?
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