Town of Norwich had held a public art exhibition from 23 June to 31 August 2008 called Go-Elephants wherein 53 painted sculptures of baby elephants were displayed all over the city. The elephants were located in the open areas on the footpath as well as in the shopping malls/shop windows, parks and in other public places. The baby elephants were made of fibreglass and had a theme based design painted on their body by the local artists. Each elephant was about 1.7 metre long, 0.75 metres wide, 1.2 metres tall and weighed approximately 50 kg. After the end of the exhibition the baby elephants were auctioned for the benefit of local non-profit organisations. The event was managed by Wild in Art in partnership with The Forum Trust. Coincidently Google Camera Car was also in town during the exhibit period and has captured several of these colourful elephants. Since the exhibit was temporary, the Google Street View images will be lost once the street view imagery is updated. I have therefore made an effort to save the screen shot of these Google Street View images of these elephants for posterity. With the help of GEC members Walter, Utapao and Kite, 27 out of 53 elephants were located and their screen shot is being included in this post. Full list of alongwith locations as obtained from the official web page of Go-Elephants is given below. The names marked in red are those which were found in Google Street View, while the ones which couldn't be found have been greyed out. These are mainly those which were kept indoors or their location was not accessible to Google's camera Car.
Thumbnails of Individual Elephants as seen in Google Street View are given below. Clicking on the thumbnail will open a larger picture and clicking on the link below the thumbnail will open the location in Google Street View. For sake of easy identification I have retained the same S. No. as given in official webpage of Go-Elephants. 1. Chaitali Location: St. Peter’s Street - Google Street View 4. The Flying Elephant Jumbo Location: Next to Norwich City Football Ground, Carrow Road - Google Street View 5. The Elephant & Castle Location: Theatre Street, opposite The Assembly House - Google Street View 8. Pseudo Location: The National Skills Academy, St Andrew’s House, St Andrew’s Street - Google Street View 9. Eliffant Cymraeg Location: Near Caffe Uno, Tombland - Google Street View 10. Protect the Environment: Go by Bus Location: Millennium Plain, The Forum - Google Street View 13. Ellie Goes to Holkham Location: Grass area adjoining Rose Lane and Market Avenue - Google Street View 15. Norma Location: Outside John Lewis, All Saints Green - Google Street View 20. Light Construction Location: Junction of Bethel Street & St. Giles Street - Google Street View 22. Ellie Vispim - The Tree of Life Location: St. John’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Earlham Road - Google Street View 26. Norvic Meets Norwich Location: Norwich Arts Centre - Google Street View 27. A Day Out with Stephen Fry Location: Norwich Theatre Royal - Google Street View 28. The Chocolate Elephant Location: Millennium Plain, The Forum - Google Street View 29. The YMCA is not a White Elephant Location: Norwich Bus Station, Queen’s Road side - Google Street View 30. Mojo Zapatos Location: St. Peter’s Street - Google Street View 31. Mic Live Location: St John Maddermarket, St Andrew’s Street - Google Street View 32. Micro Location: Mile Cross Library, Aylsham Road - Google Street View 33. Electriphant Location: Norwich Puppet Theatre - Google Street View 37. Feeling Fruity Location: St Stephen’s Street - Google Street View 39. Parallelephant Location: Theatre Plain, The Forum - Google Street View 41. Sernia Location: Chapelfield Plain - Google Street View 42. Hefty-Lump Location: Chapelfield Gardens - Google Street View 43. Go-Green Elephant Location: St Andrew’s Plain, St George’s Street - Google Street View 46. The Educated Elephant Location: St Stephen’s Churchyard - Google Street View 47. Virginia Location: London Street - Google Street View 51. Are We On The Right Trail? Location: Cinema City, St Andrew’s Street - Google Street View 52. Buzzophalant Location: Timberhill - Google Street View Note: I have not placemarked the individual elephants in GE as these cannot be seen in the satellite imagery. However for posterity I have anchored this post near the City Hall - the area which had maximum concentration of elephants and #1 elephant was stationed here. (Source:Trail Map pdf) Credits: I am thankful to Walter, Utapao and Kite for finding 15 out of 27 elephants. _________________________ Google Earthritis is incurable! |