Walking Men, submit your examples
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You can help too. Although I have travelled from Stromness to Southampton, I haven't been everywhere.
While it would be ambitious to suggest we need to track down and document every Walking Man in the UK, or the world, we can try to record the best.
Please do email me some fine examples from your neighbourhood, and I will add them to this page. Photographs and location information, and short description.
Thanks to everyone who have sent me photos!
Email yours to: steve@walkingmen.org
Examples sent in
"I saw this Walking Man outside Ikea in Edmonton. Thought it was interesting because of his large feet."
From Bryn
"A little while ago I was involved with running a photographic competition to illustrate verses from the King James Bible, and took this "broken man" as one of my entries. Since then, I have also spotted a fat smurf-like figure near where I live."
From Richard Littledale
"At the Leisure Centre in Abroath there's a yellow man with a child on each hand."
Though the images painted in carparks are not really 'walking men' I do include some in my collection because they're so closely related. This is private land, so they can design what they like, it just has to be intelligible to the user as a parking place reserved for parent and child... This could be unique though, featuring two children - twins apparently.
'Walk this way man alone - to Tesco, Arbroath'
Both from Maria Macdonell
"These are opposite the Red Lion in Southwold, in a rectangle around some parking bays. Though newly painted, some are box-fresh and some are wearing out already."
From Mary Turner
"Here's one I took 2 years ago, off Caledonian Road, London, outside a school I think."
From Bryn
"Visited the Olympic Park today and snapped this example while there, thought you might like it - I'd say he's more like a Dancing Man, á la John Travolta.
From Paul Hibbert
"Here's a few from Bournemouth and Christchurch recently. Ghosts of earlier incarnations (right) and ironically run over."
From Amrit Row
Running men are very rare, this one from the public carpark in Wadebridge, Cornwall.
From Guy Rose
Another one from Guy Rose, and unique in green. Spotted near the ski-lift at Saint-Bon-Tarentaise, France.
Dancing Man - or little unsteady on the legs?
Just to be technical, this one is also interesting because you can see the shape is created by just 3 lines and a circle. See the overlap of the 2 vertical lines that cleverly defines the body.
Manor Lane, York
From Ken Spense
(I have photographed this myself now see men near the bottom - YORK)
A sensible stencil design from Italy, though are the gaps intended or not?
Bressonone, Italy
From Philip Wragg
The standard, simple US design, this one wearing a little thin.
Manhatten, USA
From Andy Sharman
Another stylish stencil - this one from Avignon, France,
From Rachel Sharman