Hodgkin Park: Artworks

Hodgkin Park has a variety of artworks in both the upper and lower parks.

Most were installed in 1996.

William Pym also created the artwork on Wellfield Road, at the bottom of Colston Street.

Upper park

Lovers Gate

By William Pym.

These gates are at the entrance to the north of the park on Benwell Lane.

The gates read "Lover's Refuge; Nature's Asylum" and "From Lover's Lane to Gretna Road".

Gretna Road, originally known as Lovers Lane, is approximately a third of a kilometre to the north of the park. It runs from Fergusons Lane and Benwell Village to the West Road.

Sapling

By William Pym.

A tree made from wrought iron and commissioned by Jacksons, a local law firm. It is dedicated to Thomas Hodgkin.




Paradise gate

By William Pym.

South West entrance, at the corner of Milford Road and Armstrong Road.

Wrought iron. 

Paradise was an area to the South of the lower park, between Scotswood Road and Whitehouse Road. The Business Park occupies the site now.

Paradise, Scotswood

Inscription: "Hodgkin Park - Dream of Paradise". Images of an industrial scene below, with plants above.


Oasis gate

By William Pym.

South East entrance, on junction of Armstrong Road and Hodgkin Park Road.

Wrought iron.

Inscription: "From a city to the park; from a garden to the town; an oasis in a desert of street and stone"




Lower park

Fern screen

A steel sculpture by Denis O'Connor, Sculpture Works, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Top Eastern corner, opposite St Joseph's church on the corner of Armstrong Road and South Benwell Road. 



Metrolands Arbour

By William Pym.

Main Northern entrance on Armstrong Road.

Made from forged iron and originally painted green, blue and red.

Inscription: "Far beyond the here and now; Urban Arbour; Green Arena". William Pym based the design on the entrances to the Paris Metro.

 


The park railings feature portraits of the artist's assistants cut into the panels. 





Mosaics

Throughout the lower park.



Metroland

By Simon English.

The maze used stone blocks from demolished buildings. It was removed in 2013 during refurbishment of the park.

Photo: Newcastle Libraries on flickr

March 2021

Some of the stones are still in the park.

Entrance

South East corner on the junction of South Benwell Road and Whitehouse Road.



Photo gallery

The upper park runs from Benwell Lane to Armstrong Road, and the lower park from Armstrong Road to Whitehouse Road.


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