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Not sure if the Elm Row pigeons are back yet, but including them the city has also built statues to swans, giraffes, dogs, fibreglass cows and now bears in the last 10 or 15 years. From a previous generation, there's Alexander and Bucephalus, Charles II on Horseback and Wellington on Copenhagen. Even horses out-number women.
Maybe we would have to sneak it past the planning committees by having a statue of Elsie Inglis riding a hippo or something.
Just remembered there's busts of the writers Naomi Mitchison, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay at Edinburgh Park alongside the canal (or as it likes to style itself, "Loch Ross"!). That's 3/10 of the total in that particular collection.
Maybe we would have to sneak it past the planning committees by having a statue of Elsie Inglis riding a hippo or something.
So long as it is a male hippo..
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There are three lochans in all, hence the total of 12 herms. The poets chosen are Douglas Dunn, W. S. Graham, Hamish Henderson, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Naomi Mitchison, Edwin Morgan and Iain Crichton Smith.
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http://www.scotsman.com/business/transport-industry/nel-staying-ahead-of-the-game-1-917430
I seem to remember that the LL is particularly unflattering. I think she had to unveil it.
"...having a statue of Elsie Inglis riding a hippo or something..."
J. K. Rowling riding a gryphon?
A kinetic sculpture of Evelyn Glennie bashing giant instruments on Picardy Place?
Oh only 3/12 then. And yes LL isn't great and NM looks rather like Wurzel Gummidge.
EP easy to visit now it has its own tram stop!
Spotted my office in chdot's picture. Although I've just noticed that I bought a bunch of 7 tram tickets on the phone App back in May and 6 have just expired :(
On the plus side that means that I've not had to fall back to public transport over bike once in that period.
The old style paper tickets would be disintegrating a bit in your wallet by now but they'd still be valid...
...but not for a tram. As I noticed the other day on the Lothian Buses website.
Also they've dropped the free delivery. Pushing people towards a pre-paid card (or the phone app) with expiring tickets on it.
Profit over functionality. Why they can't follow TFL's (oyster) lead and have no expiry on the electronic tickets/credit doesn't make sense to me.
Just come across this -
For a list of candidates, I would include, Sophie Jex-Blake (medicine), Elsie Inglis (medicine), Mary Fairfax Somerville (science/astronomy), Anne Redpath (art), Muriel Spark (literature). J.K. possibly for a later date.
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She also studied art with Alexander Nasmyth in Edinburgh,
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville
Worthy, but not sure how much 'associated' with Edinburgh(?)
Worthy, but not sure how much 'associated' with Edinburgh(?)
I was slightly hesitant for that reason, but she was born in Jedburgh, spent her childhood in Burntisland and went to school in Musselburgh (briefly). So more Scottish than Edinburgh, but definitely worthy.
Other possibles here -
http://www.nls.uk/news/press/2013/02/display-on-women-scientists-
Must be a few here'
Aren't herms supposed to have a phallus on the pillar? May not be the most appropriate choice for ladystatues.
On a less pedantic note, whom is/was the campaign for more statues of women targeted at? I'd have thought someone needs to identify the subject and location then raise money for it, so campaigning energies would be better spent doing that.
Maybe this is what Paolozzi was getting at when he thought to make a statue of a foot. It's the furthest you can get from a portrait. So it really does manage to avoid being male or female.
Nice bike racks next to that statue of Helen crummy. Covered to an extent by the overhang of the building
Forget statues & aim big, very big...
What does it take to get a huge roundabout named after to you...
http://womenofscotland.org.uk/women/lizzie-brice
"Lizzie Brice was an elderly woman who, in her dotage, shouted at children and gained the reputation of being a witch."
There is hope for us all...
Somewhat of a nonentity to grace a note
"Not a statue" (yet?)
Plaques in Jedburgh and Burntisland.
@Ed1 My non-science-studying wife hadn't heard of James Clark Maxwell-Building prior to seeing that documentary about him the other month. He had a fair few namechecks yesterday amongst all the gravitational wave news, whereas there were very few mentions of Tombaugh or Lowell when New Horizons was poking around at Pluto last year.
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