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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

So they're to erect a 164ft high statue of a white horse at Ebbsfleet, alongside the A2 and the Channel Tunnel rail link, as a welcoming symbol of Kent and England to travellers (presumably it's not going to be positioned with its rear end pointing towards France).

Don't google it - anyone know where Ebbsfleet is, or used to be better known as?

Can anyone think of a more impractical colour, given our weather and the close proximity of a power station, Thameside industry and several motorways?

It has been dubbed Angel of the South, which displays an extraordinary lack of imagination. Or Horse Rolling Eyes

It needs a name. Any offers? (Presumably the finished article is going to be unisex)

Paint it a different colour, and it could be Red Rum

Or how about Gordon? Costs a lot but not worth very much.
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Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

It's not far from Margate on the Kent coast, it has always been called Ebbsfleet as far as I know.

Rachel · Guest

Maybe it's a modern take on the white horses carved into hillsides. Perhaps, a poor and bludgeoning attempt at showing progress - our ancestors could only dig up the soil to make a horse shape on the ground- but we've moved on, and we’re now really clever - we can make tall things from concrete:- even horse shaped things.

If travelling through the most fantastic, impressive engineering showpiece on the planet, at over a hundred miles an hour isn't sufficient enough to impress visitors to the UK; an overgrown concrete bollard in the shape of horse isn’t going to cut much ice either.

Perhaps the horse should be called “Big Bill.”

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646