Seaham Hall Beach (Remand Home) Photo

'Jewels of the Sea', East Shore, Seaham

One of 34 cast-iron sculptures by Andrew McKeown, inspired by the marine single-celled organisms, diatoms. Most diatoms are unicellular, although they can exist as colonies in the shape of filaments or ribbons, zigzags, or star-shapes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatoms The sculptures are dotted around a newly created, small park, open to the sea in the east, part of the East Shore housing development on the reclaimed site of Vane Tempest Colliery [[1707562]]

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