Harding's Pits Doorstep Green : Picture Gallery

Your Green is Under Threat

Four years after it agreed to a 25 year arrangement for Harding’s Pits to be managed as a Doorstep Green, King’s Lynn borough council wants the land back.

Please help to save it. Click here to go to our petition page.

Go to the 'Fight for the Pits' page to read the latest on our fight to save Harding's Pits for the town.

Picture Gallery

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Frozen Cormorants posing for the next Attenborough documentary

The Great Bird from the South

The Great bird from the North

A scraggy bush outlined against a snow filled sky

Wintry sun struggling over South Lynn

King's Lynn twinned with Siberia

The Great Whale etched in black and white

The Great Whale

The Porpoise

The Great Bird

The Fisherman

The Ladybird

The Seal

Official opening

View of Harding's Pits

Construction Works

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The Sculptures

These are the work of an artist from Suffolk, Ben Platts-Mills and his helpers. Timber is their material and the chainsaw is their principal tool. Their work is to be seen in many parts of East Anglia and further afield and Harding's Pits, with its carved entry markers and the Great Whale at the centre, is among their best. The Fairstead Doorstep Green in North Lynn has another fine example of their artistry.

Before he began work, Ben held classes in the three primary schools close to the Green — Whitefriars, Greyfriars and St Michaels — asking children what they would like to see put there. The ideas came thick and fast, hence the seal supported by a man rising out of the earth and with a submarine on the end of its nose, the tumblers (part of Harding's Pits was once used as winter quarters for the travelling fairground folk) holding up the fisherman in his sou'wester, and the great bird now cruelly vandalised but still keeping watch over the Green and its many inhabitants.

See more of Ben's work here.

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Your Green is Under Threat

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The Sculptures