The date given at the top of the page is a bit of a lie; Glynn Williams' 'The Hunter' was actually built in 1981 and displayed for a few years at Margam Sculpture Park, not far from Port Talbot in Wales. It moved to Grizedale in 1985 and has remained ever since, and what changes it has witnessed in that time. It was sited in the nursery and has watched the area turn into a playground and then later, another playground.

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Bizarrely, the piece disappeared off the maps for years, as though the folks at Grizedale had completely forgotten it was there. From around 1990 onwards it wasn't listed on any guides, and it wasn't until recently that someone realised that the mysterious guy sitting in the corner of the playground with a dead boar over his shoulders was actually a sculpture and decided to put him back on the listings.

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As for Glynn Williams, he was born in Shrewsbury

in 1939 and had been carving stone figures since the end of the 1970s. Before then, he had been making abstract wooden sculptures, but his shift to stonework saw the beginning of his most successful spell. His statue of David Lloyd George can still be found at Parliament Square in London.