Carved from a single tree trunk
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Carved from a single tree trunk by James Allan as part of the Geograph project.
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Carved from a single tree trunk
Image: © James Allan Taken: 21 Nov 2011
Among the 'navigators' (or 'navvies' who were labourers in the construction of the Union Canal) were two poor Irish men who worked out a cunning plan to get rich quick. They used to get visitors to the city drunk, suffocate them with a pillow and then sell their bodies to the local anatomy school for considerable sums of money. Much quicker and easier than the laborious old way of having to dig up recent graves to get the bodies. And it is these two men, the notorious Burke and Hare, who these life-size figures alongside the Union Canal represent.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.921167
Longitude
-3.256082