Colourful stained glass art works which have adorned a North Tyneside Metro station for 40 years are to be restored to their former glory. The Beach & Shipyards installation, which bookends the historic canopy at Monkseaton Metro station with iconic designs in stained glass, is to be painstakingly cleaned and repaired at Sunderland's National Glass Centre. And a former pupil of the artist who first created it will be undertaking the restoration work. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, said the project formed part of a £400,000 scheme to refurbish the gable ends of the station canopy, which dates back to 1915, preserving the canopy and the stained-glass windows for many years to come. Artist Mike Davis incorporated stained glass into each end of Monkseaton's glazed canopy in 1983.
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