Statue of Sophie Constable
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Statue of Sophie Constable
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 18 Sep 2023
A recently erected sculpture by Ray Lonsdale situated at the edge of the former Northallerton Prison site, now the Treadmills development. Sophie Constable was an 11 year old girl, convicted of stealing a loaf of bread in Whitby and imprisoned here in Northallerton for 3 weeks in 1873. A plaque on the base of the sculpture has the following inscription..... 'The ballad of Sophie Constable A life without choice, a future restricted, but all the same found guilty - convicted. Guilty of stealing by devious deception and the law to be followed, without exception. Sophia and her mild transgression Sophia Constable aged just eleven'.
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Image Location
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54.338687
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-1.431507