Disco dudes and giant spoons: UK’s outdoor public sculptures are documented

The 15ft Eat for England sculpture by Bob Budd, known locally as The Giant Spoon, in Cramlington, Northumberland. Photograph: Hazel Plater/Alamy

Between two fields on the outskirts of a 1960s new town in Northumberland is a startling, track-stopping sculpture passed by on a regular basis by hardly anyone: it’s a giant 15ft spoon.

Outside Dorset county hospital is a vizsla dog, always well behaved because it was made by Elisabeth Frink in bronze. On the Isle of Man the three disco dudes swaggering down the promenade are the Bee Gees.