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200 years of Nelson in the Bull Ring

Vivienne14 said:
Was Nelson's statue moved across the road? I thought it stood by the pedestrian ramp into the Bull Ring. Viv.
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Hi Vivienne14,

Have just joined and picked up your comment on Nelsons move! Yes, he has moved.

When the Bull Ring was originally designed in the 1960s my Dad was a part of the team. At the time Nelson was destined for an out of town park or scrap as he was politically out of fashion together with Queen Victoria. Some of the design team insisted on his remaining, and put up a plinth for him, also because that exact spot marked the centre of the old Bull Ring market. The spot was known as speakers corner and was where people like Mum and Dad used to met in their youth. In time that spot fell into disuse and when the Bull Ring was upgraded again in recent years Nelson moved to his new spot and he looks great. Nelson knew a thing or two about moving around so I guess he would not have had a problem with being moved again.

Hope this is of interest.

Kind regards
 
Welcome to the forum Fletcherfamilyason.. thank you for that interesting insight. Hope you find things of interest to you on here
 
Speakers Corner. I doubt anyone here remembers Moseley giving talks along with his guardians there during the 1930's. There were, apparently fights between the political factions. Maybe one of our newspaper cutting experts can find sometthing about this.
 
mikejee said:
Welcome to the forum Fletcherfamilyason.. thank you for that interesting insight. Hope you find things of interest to you on here
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Thank You mikejee, and Thank You for your kind welcome.

Yes there is plenty of interest here in this amazing forum. I am enjoying learning many things that I did not know before about the place that my family comes from and when we sort out the family films etc will try to upload them for you.

Kind Regards to you.
 
welcome from me too....if i am correct in assuming you hail from aston there is lot on that area on the forum....enjoy

all the best..lyn
 
Radiorails said:
Speakers Corner. I doubt anyone here remembers Moseley giving talks along with his guardians there during the 1930's. There were, apparently fights between the political factions. Maybe one of our newspaper cutting experts can find sometthing about this.
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Yes, Thank You for that Radiorails. It was a desperate time all round I think. My parents, along with many others, just met there as young lovers and as money was desperately short things were kept simple and cheap. They often headed of after meeting each other for a long walk and talk apparently. Glad you are picking up on the other significance of Speakers Corner at the time. There was a less innocent side to the location for some.

Kind regards to you and it would be good to see any newspaper articles that come to light.
 
Astoness said:
welcome from me too....if i am correct in assuming you hail from aston there is lot on that area on the forum....enjoy

all the best..lyn
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Thank You Astoness for your very warm welcome.

Yes, I am looking forward to learning more about Aston. There is so much to learn and if I come across anything in our papers that may be of interest you in Aston I will let you know.

Very kind regards to you and Thank You again.
 
Today is Trafalgar Day and 215 years since the battle. Just wondered if a ceremony of any sort takes place at Nelson's statue in the Bull Ring? Dave
 
This is an intriguing image of Nelson's Statue as shown in this extract from Radclyffe's Birmingham 1840 shows another plinth or fountain alongside. I don't think this is the old Cock Pump discussed on other threads. But the interesting thing about it is it has a ship on top. The man crouching (with a stool) in front of it might still be sculpting it perhaps ?

Could be a case of artistic licence of course and I've never come across anything mentioning it, but interesting all the same. And that sitting soldier looks a bit brassed off! Viv.


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Vivienne14 said:
This is intriguing image of Nelson's Statue as shown in this extract from Radclyffe's Birmingham 1840 shows another plinth or fountain alongside. I don't think this is the old Cock Pump discussed on other threads. But the interesting thing about it is it has a ship on top. The man crouching (with a stool) in front of it might still be sculpting it perhaps ?

Could be a case of artistic licence of course and I've never come across anything mentioning it, but interesting all the same. And that sitting soldier looks a bit brassed off! Viv.


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Viv, you are correct, that is a very intriguing image. There is obviously something very symbolic about the ship and Nelson (at least I think so).
 
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