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Hull
(Kingston-upon-Hull) East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside Humber Quays |
Emigrants en route to America |
Mark DeGraffenried & Neil Hadlock
Toledo Bronzeworks 2001 |
Statue of a family, a man, his wife, a young boy and a infant girl, with their luggage. The boy is playing with a lobster.
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Other cast of this statue (on this site) are in Portsmouth and Liverpool.
From DeGraffenried's website (no longer available):Four life-size emigrant families (each family consisted of a mother, father and two children) cast in bronze to commemorate our pioneer heritage from Europe. Permanent locations at Mersey Side Dock Maritime Museum, Liverpool* England, Broad Street, Portsmouth England, and Albert Dock, Hull* England. One life-size bronze on loan at Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. DeGraffenried sculpted each piece as well as assisted with the bronze casting and installation of the finished sculptures.*The statue is at the Albert Dock in Liverpool.
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Neil Hadlock's sculpture depicts a family from Northern Europe having left ship before continuing to Paragon Station then by train to Liverpool then by ship to America
Over 2,200,000 people passed through Hull
and other Humber Ports to America between 1836 and 1914 Statue donated 2001 to Kingston upon Hull by the Sea Trek Foundation of America as they retraced their descendants journey in Tall Ships from Northern Europa This statue is located on the reclaimed land at "The Bullnose" where ships waited for high tide before entering Humber Dock |
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