Downtown Week 2006 - Tyson Smith Walk & Talk (8)
(Pat Neill talking about the holistically restore Cenotaph)
 

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

Cenotaph 

·       Location: St George’s Plateau, Lime Street

·       Architect: Professor Lionel Bailey Budden

·       Unveiled: Tuesday 11th November 1930 by Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17 Earl of Derby

·       Material:  Stancliffe stone, reliefs in bronze

·       Bronze founders: Morris-Singer & Co.

·       Relief panels show contrasting aspects of the Great War

·       Bible quotations above and below the panel

·       Mrs Tyson Smith is shown on the left of the panel, standing behind the kneeling mourner

·       The boy standing on the right is the Smith’s son

·       Tyson Smith is also shown on the panel

·       Note the Twenties style of dress worn by the mourners

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