Statue of Gladstone with red hand at Bow Church
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Statue of Gladstone with red hand at Bow Church
Image: © David Smith Taken: 20 Nov 2012
The statue was erected in Gladstone's lifetime (this is unusual for such a statue) and paid for by the proprietors of the local match factory. One story is that the girl employees believed that one shilling had been deducted from their wages to pay for it, and protested when it was unveiled, including cutting their arms so that their hands were bloody. Since then, the statue's hands have been daubed with red. In the foreground is ironwork for some closed public lavatories. Statue created by Albert Bruce-Joy
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Image Location
Latitude
51.52843
Longitude
-0.017639