Life size sculpture in brass by John Clinch (1993) situated on the harbour's edge (now Mermaid Quay) in Tiger Bay (now Cardiff Bay) and commemorating the lively mutli-cultural community that once co-existed nearby (i.e. before the demolition of Loudon Square and relocation of many families, and where an aunt of my father's lived, married to a Portugese Goan merchant seaman, called ?Aveira, who by all accounts was a gent and a bit of a hero during the war, but to their shame, excluded by the rest of the family). My father worked nearby for a while as a young boy straight from school (no qualifications) as a runner for a shipping office (or shipping insurance agent?, Sir ?James German), within sight of the Pierhead Building. Another uncle and my maternal grandfather worked nearby for stationers Edward Roberts, who supplied the many banks, offices and the Exchange, where the world's first £1m cheque was written.
Posted on 1st April 2008
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Apologies for not being sure of the title of this sculpture in the pool, by the brilliant Sir William Goscombe John (the same figure can be seen in the gardens of the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, and other works are to be found there and in the vicinity of the city). Local legend has it that it commemorates a boy drowned; the location is the small but most beautifully formed Thomson's Park.
I believe this casting is in resin, after the original (and a re-cast) was stolen and damaged; sadly it still suffers mistreatment, the butterfly on the boy's outstretched hand in particular seems to attract vandals.
Posted on 20th March 2008
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I apologise that I don't know the name of the wood sculptor who made this popular work out of tree that had (in the Council's view) to have its branches amputated. It's located in the small but beautiful Thomson's Park, Treganna / Canton, Caerdydd / Cardiff. Any further details welcome.
Posted on 20th March 2008
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I apologise that I don't know the name of the wood sculptor who made this popular work out of tree that had (in the Council's view) to have its branches amputated. It's located in the small but beautiful Thomson's Park, Treganna / Canton, Caerdydd / Cardiff. Any further details welcome.
Posted on 20th March 2008
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Gwaith athrylithgar ac un o gofebion pwysicaf Cymru - cofeb i longwyr lleol y llynges fasnachol ( o genhedloedd y byd) a fu farw mewn sawl rhyfel; o un wedd y mae fel wyneb, yn syllu ar wely'r mor, ac o wedd arall, sgerbwd o gwch, fel y rhai a drwsiwyd nepell o'r fan a nawr hel y glaw ac ambell i babi coch ar Sul y Cofio.
This Memorial to the local merchant seamen lost at sea during war is located close to the Pierhead and Senedd Buildings in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff. It was sculpted by Brian Fell in 1996 and unveiled in 1997; the surrounding pavement mosaic is by Louise Shenstone and Adrian Butler, and portrays scenes from sea battles and local seamen.
A most moving and remarkable memorial, at once both a ship's hulk, carrying nothing but rain and a few red poppies in its empty hull, and at the same time the face of everyman, lying at rest on the ocean floor.
Cardiff was one of the greatest ports in the world in the first half of the last century, with men of all nations running the gauntlet of the U-Boat packs.
Posted on 18th March 2008
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Not sure of the correct title for this monument.
Posted on 18th March 2008
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