There's a new Frog Art Trail to follow around Stockport town centre.
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| Edgeleap, the Stockport County frog |
Totally Stockport, the team behind Stockport's Business Improvement District (BID), rolled out a new art trail at the weekend, with Stockport's Giant Leap consisting of 19 decorated giant frog sculptures dotted around the town centre.
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| A frog decorated by Girlguiding Stockport |
Each of the frogs has a different Stopfordian theme and have been designed by local artists, schools, businesses and community groups.
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| Stagecoach's 192 bus frog |
I've managed to find 15 of the frogs in my two most recent wanders around town.
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| Sir Norman Frogster at the bottom of the infamous and historic Mealhouse Brow |
Frog's were chosen as the 'things' to follow as they highlight the £1bn programme of investment and development that is regenerating Stockport, a giant leap forward for the town.
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| Strawberry Fields the frog, celebrating Strawberry Studios home in Stockport |
The froggy art trail ends on the 28th September. Check out Stockport's Giant Leap website for more information.
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| Sir Hopsalot |
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| Cornelius, the pyjamas wearing Holiday Inn frog |
We're big fans of tickable lists and also followed the Totally Stockport Ice Trail last December. We're also ticking off the Invader pixel mosaic tile art in Manchester (and in London and Newcastle), as well as the Stockport green space list and the railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport (two left to visit) and Greater Manchester (lots to go). There is one Stockport tickable list we won't be attempting to complete though!
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| This froggy character by Totally Stockport was part of the Ice Trail last December |
Our main tickable list challenge is our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - where we've now visited 911 courses. When we began there were around 600 in the UK!
Links:
- Totally Stockport
- Marketing Stockport
There are three new bonus froggy additions to the art trail.
ReplyDeleteOne of them - FrogPie - is at Stockport Exchange / Stockport railway station.
I've seen online that another of them has been added near to The Range's new store at the Peel Centre. But I'm not sure where the other one is yet.
We saw two of the new Bonus Frogs on Stockport's Giant Leap art trail yesterday evening.
ReplyDeleteFoster the Frog can be found in the Merseyway shopping centre.
Lilian Phibian is near The Range at the Peel Centre.
Earlier this month I found FrogPie, the bonus frog from musicMagpie, at Stockport Exchange.