Greenock-Radical_War_memorial.jpg
Summary
Description Greenock-Radical War memorial.jpg |
English:
Monument to the
Radical War
unrest of 8 April 1820, when soldiers of the Port Glasgow Volunteers escorted five Radical prisoners to Greenock Jail, Bank Street,
Greenock
, then when stones and insults were hurled at them by the crowd of townsfolk, opened fire killing eight protesters, and wounding ten others.
The bronze sculpture by Angela Hunter of Innerleithen was unveiled on Saturday 26 September 2015. On the east side of Bank Street, stones inset into the retaining wall of the Well Park record the ages and names of those killed: feature created by Broughton-based landscape designer James Gordon This view looks down Bank Street northwards to Cathcart Square: the (cream coloured) Dutch Gable building of 1755 is seen past the clasped hands, the building in the left foreground is the Mid Kirk of 1761. The Bridewell or jail, which opened in 1810, was sited immediately to the south of the Kirk, with an entrance onto Bank Street: it was demolished in 1886.
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Author | dave souza |
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