Straw Sculptures
At Snugburys we love being creative and a little bit different!
For over 10 years, with the help of our great friend and talent Mike Harper Director of Harbook Engineering, we have been building amazing straw sculptures in our field which sits along side the A51 Chester Road.
What does this have to do with ice cream?? Well, not a lot, we just enjoy making them and love how much pleasure other people get from them!! Having said that, each year we have great fun making ice cream cones which look like our sculptures. These in turn help to raise money for a select charity.
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Snugburys Polar Bear 2011
Cheshire is now home to one very cool straw Polar Bear!
Standing 38ft tall and weighing in at an impressive 9 tonnes, it took 3 tonnes of straw and over a month to complete.
. . . . There have been rumours that Snugburys straw Polar Bear can also be traced back to a brown Irish bear which lived over 20,000 years ago!
This year our 'Polar Bear Cones' will be supporting The Children's Adventure Farm Trust.
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Meerkat 2010
Our Meerkat was thirty six feet tall, that’s 30 times bigger than his African cousins! He really did have his own personality as he proudly surveyed the Cheshire planes over summer 2010.
Snugburys meerkat supported the Railway Children and over 2010/11 raised £2,880.
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Big Ben 2009
Big Ben was a BIG success...
The straw feature was built in celebration of the Westminster Clock Tower’s 150th birthday in 2009. Snugburys fully working and luminous clock helped to mark this fantastic anniversary. The Straw Big Ben even bumped its name sake out of the lime light - featuring on ITV’s news at 10! It was also seen on BBC, CNN news and many newspapers including the Daily Mail, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sun, Express and Hello magazine. We also heard reports of sightings in Australia, China and South Africa!
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WINDMILL 2008
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DISH OF THE DAY 2007
As 2007 was the 10 anniversary of our straw sculptures we held a competition to find inspiration for our creation. Our competition winner came up with this great idea – Dish of the day. Inspired by fifty years since the dawn of the space age and the construction of the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank!
The Dish itself weighed in at over 6 tonnes and had a 32 foot diameter. The overall sculpture was forty five feet in height.
See 'Dish of the Day' feature in the Telegraph Newspaper...
See the winner in the Chronicle Newspaper feature here...
Snugburys 'Dish of the day' supported the Kids Company charity
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THE SNUGNIK ROCKET 2006
Don't go Russian past.
Snugnik featured in Hello magazine, The Chronicle and The Sentinel newspapers.
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Millenium Wheel 2005
Our steel and straw Millenium Wheel has proved a huge success and has featured in Hello Magazine, Metro Magazine, The Farmers Guardian Manchester Evening News, The Sunday Times and Funday Times.
Chris has also been interviewed by the BBC about the wheel and about the letter he received from David Marks the architect of the London Eye - Read more...
Spot the difference? The London Eye is the one on the left.
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Angel from the North West 2004
The Angel of the North West was a great success and supported Hope House.
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Coneastrawus 2003
A dinosaur again strides across the Cheshire plains. This Ice Cream eating Coneastrawus was conceived from an idea by Liz Considine and designed and fabricated by Michael Harper.
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Cone-Wealth Games 2002
