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The views from Crosby Beach over the Mersey to New Brighton and across Liverpool Bay to North Wales must be some of the best in the North West.

The 100 iron figures which make up Antony Gormley’s Another Place only add to the atmosphere.

Another Place, Crosby Beach.

Since being installed in the summer of 2005 they’ve had an immediate effect on the area.

Local businesses are reporting an increase in trade from the thousands of people who come from home and abroad to see the statues.

Paddling Statue.

They’ve been used as backdrops for a local church’s Nativity Play and for a performance by a visiting ballet corp.

If you spend time on the beach watching people come and go they almost all get close to at least one of the statues while they’re on the beach. 

Figure standing in the waves.

At first the figures all seem to be the same, but there’s one way you can easily tell them apart. On their right wrists each of the iron men wears an identity tag stamped with a number.

To find out how people interact with the figures I did a very un-scientific experiment.  I set up a video camera, pointed it at Statue Number 59 and waited.

As you can see from the film it wasn’t long before the first beachcombers came out, and they all took notice of Number 59.