Leaving of Liverpool

[dewmuw]

Liverpool saw many many people leaving in the past for new lives overseas. This sculpture represents those families.

http://www.pbase.com/dewmuw/image/44604568.jpg

Behind the family is the boy:

http://www.pbase.com/dewmuw/image/44604567.jpg

[Osman Olgen]

Good composition.

[dewmuw]

Good composition.

Thanks. I was kneeling down.

[despot]

Nice shots.
I saw this sculpture when I visited Liverpool. I thought it looked familiar ... did you know there's another one exactly the same in Portsmouth?

Andy

[dewmuw]

Nice shots.
I saw this sculpture when I visited Liverpool. I thought it looked familiar ... did you know there's another one exactly the same in Portsmouth?

Andy
Wonder if the sculptor charged full price? :D

[PeterTaylor]

Hi
This statue or monument is called Sea Trek, (or the Mormon statue as I was informed the other day, because it was apparently funded by the Mormons).

There is a plaque on the wall behind the monument with the following wording,

‘During the Famine years 1845-52 over one million Irish people left from this shore to escape hunger and poverty and seek a new life across the seas.
Remember the Great Famine.’

It is a small but fitting tribute to all those brave people/families who through hunger and necessity made a brave decision to start a new life in a new world.

Excellent shots, you had better light that the day I shot this monument.


Peter.

[stoneylonesome]

Beautiful shots Damian. and a wonderful tribute.

[dewmuw]

Hi
This statue or monument is called Sea Trek, (or the Mormon statue as I was informed the other day, because it was apparently funded by the Mormons).

There is a plaque on the wall behind the monument with the following wording,

‘During the Famine years 1845-52 over one million Irish people left from this shore to escape hunger and poverty and seek a new life across the seas.
Remember the Great Famine.’

It is a small but fitting tribute to all those brave people/families who through hunger and necessity made a brave decision to start a new life in a new world.

Excellent shots, you had better light that the day I shot this monument.


Peter.

Thanks Peter - I was there on Friday and it was a nice day. I was also there on Sunday trying to take some shots of the Spitfire and Lancaster but the weather was not so good.

[dewmuw]

Beautiful shots Damian. and a wonderful tribute.

Thanks Sandy. I actually sat down on the base of the statute to tie my last and a guy came up and asked me to move because I was spoiling his shot! :o