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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:47 pm    Post subject: Stornoway Herring Girls - fb Reply with quote






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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've not found out much about these two Herring Girls. It looks like they are life-sized.

From the Stornoway Amenity Trust's website

http://www.stornowayamenitytrust.co.uk/herring_girls.asp

Herring Girls commemorated: The work of women in the heyday of the Herring fishery has been marked by the Amenity Trust with the commissioning and installation of two statues, one on North Beach Quay and the other on South Beach Quay. Each has been landscaped as a feature with associated herring barrels and stone paving.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The sculptors were Ginny Hutchison and Charles Engebretson from Aberdeenshire who also did the fisherwoman at Nairn.

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