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A continuation of a day at the seaside.
Nearly at the end of our walk we were heading back to the car when we came across this sight.
It is a street sculpture entitled 'They shoot horses don't they?'.
It is also note worthy as the largest mirror ball in the world.
I have included a shot of the pavement as a WS to show the light 'specks' that the ball was throwing out from the light of the setting sun.
I will post a close up of the ball itself tommorrow.
BTW - All the way home my wife and I puzzled over the title of the work and then it clicked, I remembered a film of the same name that was about a 1930's dance marathon - of course it was shot in a dance hall - that had a mirror ball :)

The following is a review of the film taken off the net.

'THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? is a brilliant film, almost an existential allegory of the meaningless monotony of the dance of life, which unfortunately is also a fairly realistic portrait of suffering and exploitation during the Depression of the 1930s.
Sydney Pollack's dark and impassioned adaptation of Horace McCoy's novel examines the limits of devotion and endurance. The intricately interwoven plot centers on a marathon dance contest that takes place in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The poverty-stricken participants struggle to keep their footing in order to survive the hard times, with hope for the cash prize the sole reason for continuing to dance. The tragic competitors are an effective mirror for the American ideals of the time and the overwhelming feeling of disenchantment. Filled with dramatic tension and moving performances, THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? is harrowing and unforgettable'.