Dream

I've passed it so many times on the M62 between Manchester and Liverpool, standing like a stark white Easter Island statue behind a planting of trees - the sort which masks an old colliery, that I decided today that Bob and I would go and take a closer look.
The statue and site has a huge back history which you can read here and is on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery.
There's quite a climb to the top of the hill, and, as you round the corner to confront the Dream, suddenly there it is. It is magnificent. Somehow the sound of the passing motorway traffic becomes deadened by the trees and your vision is completely taken up with this thing of beauty and repose.
On the route back downhill, I stopped to look at the view which sweeps from Fiddlers Ferry power station in the east to the chemical works at Stanlow and the Welsh mountains behind.
It really is worth a visit.