@busylady Thanks Judith! Yeah, it's quite a hard one really. They have landscaped the area a bit now so it's greener and there's actually adequate parking without being run over by passing cars. I still have my Dad's wide angle lens on loan and thought I'd have to give it a try with that one.
@summerfield Lol, indeed :-) @ruthmouch there's some more ifnormation on the statue on the other shot, but it is indeed 20 metres tall. Don't quote me on it but apparently the wing span is the wingspan of a Boeing 737. At least that's what someone told me once.
Fabulous shot, I'm hoping to come up this way in a few weeks, fingers crossed for lovely weather like this! I really like the angel of the north, captured this well