Liverpool Monuments, Statues and Sculptures

[robbo176]

I was wondering if you knew the date that the Florence Nightingale monument on the corner of Princess Ave was erected ,thank you ,nelsbels

Hiya nelsbels
I can't find a date for the memorial but it was sculpted by J Alan in granite to the designs of the firm Willink & Thicknesse

Mandy

[robbo176]

1913.

See here

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0...8H2u3fmg&hl=en

Also her funeral pic

http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale/wellow.htm


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good work Ged

[Ged]

Ta

[nelsbels]

Thanks for that Ged, my 10 year old grandson is doing an essay of his own choosing, ie, Florenc Nightingale & i took him down to see her monument ,he asked when it had been erected ,hence my enquirey, as it is very hard to park in that area i took a quick photo of him standing by it & we left without reading what was written on the sides, nelsbels

[PhilipG]

Until just now, I never really thought about it, but the Nelson Memorial is 1814.
I mean the ones in the streets, or on buildings.

[quincyg]

I took a close up that momument last year...although not from the 'like he's sitting on the loo constipated' angle



there's some fantastic detail on there.

[PhilipG]

Sitting on the loo, constipated.

I thought it was Despair.

It's beautiful work, though, and looks so modern.

[Ged]

Thanks for that Ged, my 10 year old grandson is doing an essay of his own choosing, ie, Florenc Nightingale & i took him down to see her monument ,he asked when it had been erected ,hence my enquirey, as it is very hard to park in that area i took a quick photo of him standing by it & we left without reading what was written on the sides, nelsbels

Not sure how true it is but I heard on the Roger Phillips phone-in last year that it had been vandalised by members of the black community who said that Mary Seacole should be honoured in the same way if not even more. That may need clarifying.

[PhilipG]

Mary Who?

[taffy]

Mary Who?

She was a black woman who did much the same as Florence N in the Crimea. She's commemorated by a street name off Lodge Lane.

See
http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/hal...ffamemar.shtml

[lindylou]

It's right that she should be equally recognised.

[PhilipG]

It's just that I don't think I'm alone in not having heard of her.
On the other hand, everybody's heard of F N.
"Lady With the Lamp".

[Ged]

You're quite right Philip but that was their whole argument. Suppressed coverage or something. Media/historical bias. A cover up/Conspiracies.

[PhilipG]

You're quite right Philip but that was their whole argument. Suppressed coverage or something. Media/historical bias. A cover up/Conspiracies.

Perhaps.
But they didn't come much bigger than FN.
She was even consulted by major architects on how hospitals were to be built.

P C is a strange thing, sometimes.
The cause isn't advanced by defacing statues.

[Mark R]

Perhaps.
But they didn't come much bigger than FN.
She was even consulted by major architects on how hospitals were to be built.

Yes. She was consulted regarding the Royal Infirmary I believe.