Downtown Week 2006 - Tyson Smith Walk & Talk (6)
(Pat Neill talking about the poor condition of the French Prisoners' Plaque)
 

Picture taken on Saturday 17th June 2006, donated by Jonathan P. Neill

French Prisoners' Plaque 

·       Location: St John’s Gardens, behind St George’s Hall

·       Material: Westmorland greenstone

·       Erected: 11 November 1924

·       The plaque is a good example of how not to clean monuments. The detail of the carving and been lost and the crispness of the Tyson Smith lettering has gone, all due to the wrong method of cleaning be used

·       Interesting feature of Tyson Smith lettering is the serif of the letter J. This feature can also be seen on two of his other works; the Exchange Room News and the Hightown War Memorials inscriptions

·       The inscription is in French and English, it is another example of the superb letter cutting skills and phrasing of Tyson Smith and reads: ‘To her sons who died in captivity in Liverpool 1772 - 1803 and whose bodies lie here in the old cemetery of St. John the Baptist.  France ever grateful’

·       The plaque is signed by Tyson Smith on the right hand edge

The other main Statues and Memorials of St John’s Gardens are to; Canon T. Major Lester, Alexander Balfour, William Rathbone, Kings Liverpool Regiment, William Ewart Gladstone, Monsignor James Nugent and Sir Arthur Bower Forward   

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