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Redditch Heritage Trail

Alcester Street/Market Place
The Needles Sculptures

The ‘Needles Gateway’ – a recent addition to our
streetscape – was unveiled in 2003. Funded by
Thornfield Properties PLC (former owners of the
Kingfisher Shopping Centre), it is situated in
Alcester Street, beside the Post Office and the
library. This public artwork recognises and
celebrates the town’s industrial heritage, as
Redditch was historically the undisputed needle-
making capital of the world.
The ‘Gateway’ consists of eight stainless steel
needles. Each of them is ten metres high and set
at an angle with trailing ‘threads’ that link into the
adjacent pavement feature.

2014

Next Walk up the right hand side of the Church Green to the next road on
Steps: your right, Peakman Street.

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