Statue
Brass statue of Flora MacDonald, Inverness Castle
FLORA MACDONALD
FHAD’S A DH’FHASAS
FLUR AIR MACHAIR
MAIRIDH CLIU MA
H-AINNIR CHAOIMH.
“THE PRESERVER OF PRINCE CHARLES
EDWARD STUART WILL BE MENTIONED
IN HISTORY. AND IF COURAGE AND
FIDELITY BE VIRTUES, MENTIONED
WITH HONOUR”
JOHNSON
The statue depicts Flora MacDonald looking out over the valley and shielding her eyes, with a Scottish hound at her feet.
Memorial to the work of the Women's Land Army Scotland
NFUS Press Release: http://www.nfus.org.uk/news/2012/october/first-permanent-memorial-women-...
BBC News article on the unveiling: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19882990
Statue of Minnie the Minx
No inscription; everybody recognises Minnie the Minx!
Nairn fishwife
"Nairn Fishwife"
In Nairn, when the fishing industry was at its height in the late 19th century, the fishwife played a very important role within the community. As well as being responsible for caring for house and family, she also gathered bait, baited lines, gathered durkins (pine cones for smoking fish) prepared and smoked fish, including the famous "Nairn Spelding" then sold them throughout the local area from the creel on her back.
Please visit Nairn museum for further information.
Statue erected as part of Highland Year of Culture 2007.
The statue is based on an actual fishwife, Annie Ralph, one of the last of the Nairn fishwives. It was unveiled by Janet Urquhart, Annie Ralph's great niece.
Statue to Queen Victoria
VICTORIA
QUEEN
1837-1901
EMPRESS OF INDIA
1877-1901
ERECTED
1907
The Queen Victoria Statue stands at the foot of Leith Walk in what is now the entrance to the New Kirkgate Shopping Centre. Sculpted by John Rhind and unveiled by Lord Roseberry who was the Liberal Prime Minister 1894-5 and was watched by a crowd of over 20,000 people.
The Statue was to mark the reign of Queen Victoria who had died in 1901 and to commemorate her visit to Leith in 1842. It is also a War memorial to the memory of the Scots Guards from the area who had died in the Boar War.
The memorial was subsequently moved and again in 1985 and 2003 for restoration and cleaning and to accommodate modern traffic. In 1985 a glass casket was discovered containing Leith Newspapers of 1907 along with coins and other memorabilia. This was replaced again along with a 1985 “Edinburgh Evening News”, a set of mint Coins and a tape from the BBC explaining about the redevelopments in Leith (http://www.leithhistory.co.uk/2004/04/02/the-queen-victoria-statue/)
This pedestrian bronze statue of Queen Victoria has commemorative plaques round the plinth; it was built by the 'Leith Queen Victoria Statue Fund'.
The statue was unveiled by Lord Rosebery on the 12th October 1907, and custody was accepted by Bailie Smith on behalf of the Council.The site was given and the foundation stone paid for by the Leith Town Council out of the Common Good Fund.
John S. Rhind (dates) was the sculptor and was also responsible for the bronze bas-relief panels. The bronze plaque on the south face reads:
"QUEEN VICTORIA 1837-1901 EMPRESS OF INDIA 1877-1901 ERECTED 1907".
A panel on the East side depicts a military scene, commemorates the part played by the Leith Volunteers (5th Battalion Royal Scots) in the Boer War (1900-1902).
"5th VOLUNTEER BATTALION THE ROYAL SCOTS SOUTH AFRICA 1900-1902. A MEMORIAL TO PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY "
and "JOHN S. RHIND, Sc."
A further panel was added in 1913 to the West side, depicts
"QUEEN VICTORIA ENTERING LEITH SEPT. 3 1842" " JOHN S. RHIND Sc. 1912." (http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/Monuments/Queen-Victoria)
Statue of Queen Victoria
Statue of the young Queen Victoria
Statue of Queen Victoria
VICTORIA R
1897
DIAMOND JUBILEE
Small statue of a parakeet and garden trug on a plinth
IN MEMORY OF SUSANNAH ALICE STEPHEN
KEEP YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE SUN
& THE SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU
1960-1997
'Zannah Stephen loved the closes off the Royal Mile. The site in James Court was appropriate for two reasons: as a landscape architect, she knew that Patrick Geddes, a great town planner and creator of garden spaces, had lived there; the court is overlooked by the room in the Free Church of Scotland building (to the north) containing an etched portrait of her ancestor Alexander Moncrieff of Culfargie, one of the four brethren of the first major secession in the Church of Scotland in 1733. The room also contains the carved wooden chair in which Moncrieff prayed through the night before the signing of the historical document'. (http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/event/613802/)
Far Abune the Angus Straths
"Far Abune the Angus Straths" is one of three pieces commemorating Violet Jacob. It depicts pink-foot geese in flight.