http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Statues of animals in edinburgh en Tue, 19 May 2026 19:36:14 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292182 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:56:14 +0000 wingpig 292182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was confused when I first heard of this army bear thing when they installed the statue as in 2007 I'd seen a Korean adaptation of a German play which I thought was about the same thing, albeit rendered near-incomprehensible by being highly interpretively-dancey and mostly shouted in Korean with only four or five section-heading supertitles in English throughout the whole show. The Fringe show was in fact about Woyzeck, not Wojtek, but it was not at all obvious that the title character in the fringe show wasn't pretending to be a bear. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292177 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:22:50 +0000 jdanielp 292177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@threefromleith have you played that board game? Any good? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292175 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:15:06 +0000 acsimpson 292175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@threefromleith, those Star Wars like walkers in the background look decidedly non WWII. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292172 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:58:52 +0000 gembo 292172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They are making a film about Wojtek the beer drinking, fag smoking, munition shell carrying Polish Army Bear </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292169 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:52:12 +0000 bill 292169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not exactly statues but wooden otters, a dog and a frog along the towpath in Wester Hailes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292153 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:23:09 +0000 threefromleith 292153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can anyone spot what's wrong with the picture the EEN are using for the Wojtek story?</p> <p>(I know that @dougal does, being a boardgamer) ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-292113 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:28:32 +0000 chdot 292113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/story-of-wojtek-to-be-told-in-new-film-by-the-snowman-creators-1-4804755" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/story-of-wojtek-to-be-told-in-new-film-by-the-snowman-creators-1-4804755</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290695 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 18:10:36 +0000 rbrtwtmn 290695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OSM might help with this too:<br /> <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BLA" rel="nofollow">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BLA</a></p> <p>(Click the 'run' button to run the query)</p> <p>(You can see a list of the artworks if you click the data tab at the top right). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290687 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:28:07 +0000 Cyclingmollie 290687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Gembo: Also is this in excess of the statues of women?</em></p> <p>If both versions of Arthur's Chair are still there then together with the Greek stool on top of the Burns Monument there's more statues of furniture in Edinburgh than of women. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290628 Sat, 08 Sep 2018 13:12:18 +0000 ejstubbs 290628@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>@Snowy</strong>: The half cow is still on Cowgate - I spotted it from a bus going over South Bridge yesterday. It's the north end of a southbound cow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290607 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 23:00:07 +0000 Rosie 290607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Plenty of lions and unicorns. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290606 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:57:53 +0000 Rosie 290606@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cow on the corner of Shandwick Place, outside that pub. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290605 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:43:44 +0000 I were right about that saddle 290605@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer</p> <p>That link leads to a photo credited to 'Sly Swiggs' who I am lucky enough to kind of know in real life and about whom I have many amusing stories one of which involves a bicycle. I suspect that I may well be the only person who ever knows both of you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290586 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 20:50:18 +0000 Greenroofer 290586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A weird statue called <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9593844,-3.2042393,3a,75y,33.14h,106.08t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMg7ThpqJy-C4Css6If5bdyqlT0NnCnlCm-UaTI!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMg7ThpqJy-C4Css6If5bdyqlT0NnCnlCm-UaTI%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya78.53716-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352">Horse Man Eagle in the development at Silvermills</a> that I used to inhabit in younger days. It features a horse, a man and an eagle, but it's not your usual man on a horse... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290581 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:55:47 +0000 Snowy 290581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Greyfriars Bobby of course. And the eagles at the steps of Dynamic Earth. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290580 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:53:35 +0000 Snowy 290580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Similarly there was half a cow (can't remember which half) on a wall in the Cowgate </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290579 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:52:30 +0000 Snowy 290579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there still the rhino half way up the wall of Informatics? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290575 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:40:13 +0000 Trixie 290575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The giraffes at the Omni. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290573 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:35:28 +0000 wingpig 290573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There used to be that extra swan in the WoL by St Bernard's Well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290563 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:24:52 +0000 Morningsider 290563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bronze swans at Edinburgh Quay. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290551 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:03:46 +0000 chdot 290551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Suppose it depends how you define statue -</p> <p><a href="http://www.derekcrowe.com/photos.aspx?id=506" rel="nofollow">http://www.derekcrowe.com/photos.aspx?id=506</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290548 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:58:54 +0000 gembo 290548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@neddie I suppose men are humans </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290546 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:55:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 290546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The pigeons.</p> <p>There was a mouse on the big trumpet in Loanhead but it kept getting nicked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290545 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:54:23 +0000 chdot 290545@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are there not two versions of the same bear? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290543 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:53:09 +0000 neddie 290543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There are some horses round about - they tend to have humans on top though </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19096#post-290542 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:47:06 +0000 gembo 290542@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Two dogs and one bear so far. Anymore? Also is this in excess of the statues of women? </p>