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Sentinel (sculpture)

Index Sentinel (sculpture)

Sentinel is a 16m high sculpture by Tim Tolkien, installed upon Spitfire Island, a roundabout at the intersection of the Chester Road and the A47 Fort Parkway at the entrance to the Castle Vale estate in Birmingham, England. [1]

22 relations: A47 road, Alex Henshaw, Avro Lancaster, Birmingham, British Industries Fair, Castle Bromwich, Castle Vale, Contrail, England, Flight test, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jaguar Cars, M6 motorway, National Exhibition Centre, National Lottery (United Kingdom), Roundabout, Rubery Owen, Sculpture, Supermarine Spitfire, The Lord of the Rings, Tim Tolkien, World War II.

A47 road

The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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Alex Henshaw

Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw, (7 November 1912 – 24 February 2007) was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong during the Second World War.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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British Industries Fair

The British Industries Fair was an important exhibition centre in Birmingham, England.

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Castle Bromwich

Castle Bromwich is a suburb situated within Solihull in the English county of the West Midlands.

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Castle Vale

Castle Vale is a housing estate located between Erdington, Minworth and Castle Bromwich.

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Contrail

Contrails (short for "condensation trails") are line-shaped clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust or changes in air pressure, typically at aircraft cruise altitudes several miles above the Earth's surface.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Flight test

Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops and gathers data during flight of an aircraft, or atmospheric testing of launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft, and then analyzes the data to evaluate the aerodynamic flight characteristics of the vehicle in order to validate the design, including safety aspects.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England and owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.

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M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45).

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National Exhibition Centre

The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is an exhibition centre located in Birmingham, England.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island, is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.

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Rubery Owen

Rubery Owen is a British engineering company which was founded in 1884 in Darlaston, West Midlands.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Tim Tolkien

Tim Tolkien (born September 1962) is an English sculptor who has designed several monumental sculptures, including the award-winning ''Sentinel''.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_(sculpture)

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