Firm helps secure future of sculptures

A galvanizing company based in the Black Country has played a major role in the creation of a £35,000 heritage trail winding through the Black Country.

Wollaston artist Luke Perry has created 33 sculptures ranging in size from from 3ft to 6ft, which run along a four-and-a-half mile stretch of the Dudley No.2 canal from Sandwell to Dudley.

They include one sculpture of a man flushing a toilet, inspired by the former Doulton Pottery Works in Rowley Regis which made cisterns and toilet bowls.

Wednesfield-based Edward Howell Galvanizers, part of Wedge Group Galvanizing, galvanized more than five tonnes of steel for the sculptures in a specialist process that will protect them from rust and corrosion.

They were installed over the summer as part of the project which was paid for via lottery funding given to the Dudley Canal Trust.