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Girl with Lamb, Handworth Park. Have you seen it around?

Qu.Be

Qu.Be

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Handsworth Park's bronze statue of a girl with a lamb was removed by (to me) person or persons unknown. in 1988.
Us Bensons are distantly connected to John P. Walker, the original sculpter, who was the husband of the sister-in-law of our maternal grandfather – no real connection at all, but we all remember the statue and used to see it in the sunken garden when we'd be in the park and know we had a link to the place.
I'm pretty sure the statue was nicked and melted down for scrap, but there's the odd chance that somebody's Mum had a really interesting present for Mothers Day that year and the thing is still out there.

Has anybody seen it since it walked off one night? Do you know anybody who might have given it a lift on Grove Lane? It was only thirty-six year ago
 
Astoness said:
how sad that someone would stoop so low as to steal that lovely statue...fingers crossed it may yet turn up



lyn
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Some people can stoop very low. Our towns War Memorial had the bronze plaques with the names of the fallen chiselled off and stolen in the night a few weeks back. Luckily the police recovered them before they could be melted down, council to re- install them.
 
Stolen 36 years ago and not traced since, it just shows you that the sort of people that do that sort of thing, were also around back then and they still seem to be getting away with it. Shame on them! :( My wife remembers it well, it was situated where they "used to catch tadpoles and eat their picnics"

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John L said:
Stolen 36 years ago and not traced since, it just shows you that the sort of people that do that sort of thing, were also around back then and they still seem to be getting away with it. Shame on them! :( My wife remembers it well, it was situated where they "used to catch tadpoles and eat their picnics"

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i know the tadpole area well...but alas too young to notice that lovely statue

lyn
 
Astoness said:
i know the tadpole area well...but alas too young to notice that lovely statue

lyn
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Me too, really. Used to be taken there by a great aunt when I was three or four. She used to tell me to be a racing car on the path while she sat down on one of the benches. I'm pretty sure that was a way to get a few moments of quiet for her!
I'd like to see the statue back where it belongs, but I reckon it's been sold for scrap long ago.
I wonder if I can do something with image scanning to get a 3D model together...
 
Qu.Be said:
Me too, really. Used to be taken there by a great aunt when I was three or four. She used to tell me to be a racing car on the path while she sat down on one of the benches. I'm pretty sure that was a way to get a few moments of quiet for her!
I'd like to see the statue back where it belongs, but I reckon it's been sold for scrap long ago.
I wonder if I can do something with image scanning to get a 3D model together...
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Well if you are able to product a 3D model, please do share the results with us.
 
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