Fiddler’s Green is a 10ft 6ins memorial created by sculptor Ray Lonsdale to honour fishermen who were killed doing their job after leaving the port. It is located at Clifford’s Fort, North Shields

A lone fisherman sitting on a mooring bollard, reflecting in thought. The design was adopted from a photograph taken on North Shields Fish Quay in the late 1950s by local photographer Harry Hann.

Object description
Type: Statue
Location: North Shields, Tyne & Wear
Material: Steel
Artist: Ray Lonsdale (b.1965)
Date: 2017

Image Details
Date: 1 December 2019
Camera body: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikkor AF-S DX 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6G ED
Focal Length: 18mm
Aperture: ƒ/4
Shutter Speed: 1/1,000s
ISO: 200
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International