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Sculpture commemorating Mary Slessor

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

the bush with its myriad voices calls to you
(a fascimile of Mary Slessor's own handwriting)

Designed by: 
Mary Bourne
Material: 
Kemnay granite
Location:
Union Terrace Gardens (towards the Union Street end.)
Union Terrace
Aberdeen , AB10 1NN
Images: 
Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture

Plaque to Janet Keiller

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

Janet Keiller
Mrs Marmalade
1737-1813

Erected by: 
Dundee Women's Trail
Date: 
2008
Material: 
Bronze with blue enamel
Location:
High Street (the corner with Castle Street)
High Street
Dundee, DD1 1SX
Images: 
Plaque to Janet Keiller
Plaque to Janet Keiller
Additional information: 

This is no. 24 in the Dundee Women's Trail.

Janet Keiller

Plaque at Waverley Station War Memorial for Railway Men and Women in WWII

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

IN MEMORY OF ALL
RAILWAY MEN AND WOMEN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE 1939-45 CONFLICT
"LEST WE FORGET"
THIS MEMORIAL WAS PLACED HERE
BY RAILTRACK AND THE RAILWAY MISSION

Erected by: 
Railtrack and the Railway Mission
Location:
foot of the pedestrian stairs, at the station drop off area on the south side of Waverley Station
Waverley Bridge
Edinburgh, EH1 1BB
Images: 
Plaque at Waverley Station War Memorial for Railway Men and Women in WWII

Railway Men and Women

Symers Street, Dundee

Dedicated to: 
Location:
Symers Street
Symers Street, Downfield
Dundee, DD3 9EX

Helen Halyburton Symers

Dates: 
c1831- November 1906

Helen Symers was born into a noted Dundee family. She was a member of St Paul’s United Free Church. Although a quiet woman, she took a full part in Dundee's charitable institutions, being at various times president of Dundee Ladies’ Union, treasurer of the Female Society for Visiting & Relieving Aged Females in Distress and a member of both the Industrial Schools Society and the Home for Reformation of Females.

She donated £10,000 to start the Fund for Indigent Females and also made donations to the Convalescent Home, Royal Victoria Hospital and the Salvation Army Rescue Home.

Sources
Dundee Women's Trail website
Further footsteps section

Kirsty Semple Way

Dedicated to: 
Location:
Kirsty Semple Way
Kirsty Semple Way
Dundee, DD2 4BF

Kirsty Semple

Title: 
Dr.
Other names: 
Her husband's surname was Gibson.
Dates: 
1924- 9 May 1995

Born in Edinburgh in 1924, Kirsty Semple graduated in medicine. She ran a G.P. practice in Dundee from 1951-1981. She married Ian S. Gibson in 1958 and they had two sons. A visit to Canada inspired her to set up Tayside Breast Care and Mastectomy Group in 1978. She also helped set up Tayside Council on Addictions. She was an elder and acting beadle at the Steeple Church and ran a tea room for the homeless. Kirsty Semple died on 9 May 1995.

Sources
Dundee Women's Trail website
Further footsteps section.

Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

Victoria Jubilee
1837-1897

Material: 
Metal
Location:
Near Bothy Restaurant
Canalside
Fort Augustus, PH32 4AU