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Crosby Beach can be reached by foot from Waterloo (Merseyside), Blundellsands and Crosby, or Hall Road railway stations. The number 53 bus runs through South Road, Waterloo, which stops near Waterloo Station. Many people take the 10-minute walk from here to the end of South Road where the Marina begins and Crosby Beach is located over the sand ...
Crosby Beach is an unincorporated community in Irondale Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States, near Crosby. References This page was last edited on 23 ...
Another Place is a piece of modern sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley located at Crosby Beach in Merseyside, England. It consists of 100 cast iron figures facing towards the sea. The figures are modelled on the artist's own naked body. [1] The work proved controversial due to the naked statues but has increased tourism to the beach.
The area is bordered by Crosby to the north, Seaforth to the south, the Rimrose Valley country park to the east, and to the west Crosby Beach and Crosby Coastal Park. Crosby Beach begins in Waterloo at the Crosby Marine Park and stretches 3 miles up to Hightown. The beach is the location of Antony Gormley's Another Place sculpture.
Crosby Beach, the site of Anthony Gormley's Another Place statues, [1] borders the area to the west. Several of the streets in Brighton-le-Sands are, like the area itself, named after locations in Sussex ; including Hastings , Worthing and Eastbourne .
Hightown is historically part of the estate of the Blundell family of Little Crosby and many houses still pay a nominal ground rent annually to the Whitlock-Blundell estate. Hightown beach is the site of a former wartime military base known as Fort Crosby. [10]
Crosby formed part of the Crosby parliamentary constituency from 1950 until 2010. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party; prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MPs elected at every election barring the 1981 Crosby by-election where Shirley ...
Crosby was built for the sole purpose of mining. It was named for George H. Crosby, a businessman in the mining industry. [5] Crosby was the location of Minnesota's worst mining disaster, the Milford Mine disaster. [6] On February 5, 1924, a new tunnel was blasted too close to nearby Foley Lake, and water rushed in, killing 41 miners.