Anyone know what this is?
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Anyone know what this is?
Spotted by the road somewhere just north of Gretna Green. A lot of Lejoggers seem to have seen it too but no-one knows what it is.
Re: Anyone know what this is?
It's a monument to the French painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who while on a cycling holiday in 1892 married a barmaid in a short ceremony in Gretna Green.
Or maybe it isn't. A local paper or the relevant parish council (or whatever they're called in Scotland) might be a good source of info? Or the tourist board?
Or maybe it isn't. A local paper or the relevant parish council (or whatever they're called in Scotland) might be a good source of info? Or the tourist board?
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This seems to be the closest I can get to any information about it.
https://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/viewto ... 2&t=161178
And this may be where more recent tales have originated.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/paul-toulouse2
Seems extraordinary that it’s fascinated people for years and remains a mystery. It’s in the Moffat/Beattock area by the old A74.
https://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/viewto ... 2&t=161178
And this may be where more recent tales have originated.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/paul-toulouse2
Seems extraordinary that it’s fascinated people for years and remains a mystery. It’s in the Moffat/Beattock area by the old A74.
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I think that is in Paulatic’s neck of woods and he might have some local knowledge.
Re: Anyone know what this is?
A few more clues - according to Google, it’s a sculpture of a hot air balloon, by Breton artist Stefanie Bourne, and is one of the Sustrans artworks.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sustrans_artwork
138 Toulouse - Mongolfiere (1997). - Sculpture by Stefanie Bourne SCOTLAND Moffat
https://www.deveron-projects.com/stefanie-bourne/ has no further info.
Haven’t found what the link between Moffatt, hot air balloons and Toulouse is yet! The first hot air balloon flight in Scotland seems to have been in Edinburgh, so it’s not that.
PS someone could start a quiz where people have to identify places and unusual objects that can be seen while on cycle touring holidays - you could it something like the Lockdown Non-Touring Quiz.....
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sustrans_artwork
138 Toulouse - Mongolfiere (1997). - Sculpture by Stefanie Bourne SCOTLAND Moffat
https://www.deveron-projects.com/stefanie-bourne/ has no further info.
Haven’t found what the link between Moffatt, hot air balloons and Toulouse is yet! The first hot air balloon flight in Scotland seems to have been in Edinburgh, so it’s not that.
PS someone could start a quiz where people have to identify places and unusual objects that can be seen while on cycle touring holidays - you could it something like the Lockdown Non-Touring Quiz.....
Re: Anyone know what this is?
I always understood it was a shelter on the Glasgow Toulouse cycle route put there when the road was upgraded to motorway.
A bike does more miles to the banana than a Porsche.