I've always thought it would be nice to seea few statueof Barnsley legends outside the ground so I think we should start a campaign to get one built. A Tiverton Preedy statue behind the ponty end anyone?</p>
It would be a great touch How much would a statue cost? Anybody know what kind of price something like the Eric Morecambe statue at er, Morecambe would have been to commission?
£125k for Morecambe But that included completely renovating the area where the statue was put. The complete waste of money building a Dickie Bird statue in Barnsley recently cost £50k I think
I've said that and thought of contacting the Supporters trust. I believe a statue is around £70,000 so funds would need to be raised. If it's Tiverton Preedy then Celtic have an excellent example of their founder from the church.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Walfrid Something similar would be a good call.
In the long term it'd be great to have a series of statues all around the ground wouldn't it though I know that would cost a lot of money. Would work well with renaming the stands though. I believe that some of it could possibly be funded by the lottery arts council with additional money from that yorkshire forward thing
I stand corrected. It's at the wrong end of town and of completely the wrong person. You can't go round building statues of people that are still alive
On slightly different tack, I think those memorial plaques on the wall under the East Stand look out of place and a bit tacky. If the BFC museum was to be based at Oakwell it would give scope for a proper memorial to Preeedy and others. Perhaps something will be done at the Town Hall Museum although by rights it should be at Oakwell.
Ipswich have numerous ones on all side of their ground. Tiverton behind the Ponty would be a good start it's about time the club starting remembering a lot of their history. Its a pity the Museum never got off the ground too. I would have thought contacting the supporters trust and getting people on board would be a start for a statue.
Why not? If someone ever makes a statue of me, I'd be much happier if they do it while I'm still alive and not when I've already been dead for a century. Don't know if Dickie Bird deserves his own statue though (I only know that he's some cricket guy) but that's not relevant here.
This might sound like a daft question Has anyone got an accurate image of him that the sculpture could use?
Well just to annoy you i'm going to commission a statue of you but only after you die. That'll teach you won't it I suppose you can build a statue of somebody that is still alive but it just seems odd, I think it depends on the situation though. If it was of a former player of a club then i'd say its fine to build a statue at the stadium when they're still alive but for one of Dickie Bird in the town centre seems slightly wrong because he's still around. If it had been at the cricket club then it would be different because it would be honouring his past time at the club. Or I might be talking nonsense again
That thought crossed my mind as well actually. I would assume that someone somewhere will have one though
I agree about the plaques under the east stand. Its a bit cheap really to put a plaque on a breeze block wall isn't it. I wonder whether part of the cost of building a new west stand could be funded by any arts councils or grants if a museum was included in them.
Celtic's founder had died 90 years before so they must have just done that from the photo and a bit of technology used for the rest.
My university has a group.... ......that can 3-D model faces with astounding accuracy from photographs in real time. This has been developed for passport control, so a rapid prototype from a photograph is technically feasible.
My partner who passed away in 2000 has a plaque on that wall. It means the world to me and his family, we don't find it tacky or cheap in any way whatsoever. His ashes were scattered around the pitch so we felt a plaque in the ground was a great idea. We left him where he would want to be - Oakwell