JAMES ROBERT CREIGHTON STATUE
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Description
Hardwick Circus provides a convenient underpass from Carlisle riverside to the town and here it skirts the impressive statue commemorating local businessman and twice town Mayor: James Robert Creighton who held office at the beginning and then at the end of the 1880's. He must have been well regarded to have such a magnificent bit of work erected in his honour. He died in 1896 and the statue was in place two years later, though it has since been moved from its original location to this one. An inscription on the base of the statue reads: "On his deathbed he sent a message to his fellow citizens expressing his profound conviction that the greatness of England depended on its capacity for local self government he trusted that Carlisle would never be without a due supply of men who regarded it as both their duty and their pleasure to devote their zeal and energy to the promotion of the welfare of the city". That's quite a sentence to get out from your deathbed and a timely reminder to us all to get to work on the details well before the fateful day arrives, I mean you wouldn't want your last words to be "bugger Bognor" or "I fancy one of Bellamy's meat pies" would you? Though I rather fancy there just might be a greater degree of accuracy in these last gasps, compared with the prolix civic self-congratulation seen here. There was of course a great deal more reverence for the better classes in those days, but even so its hard to imagine our modern local-worthies qualifying for a tribute quite like this one. Meanwhile on the summit of the pedestal St. George is busy dealing with his dragons. -
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Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8521690@N02/8554501170/
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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Picture Taken: 2013-02-22T09:39:08 -
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