Statue of Robert Milligan in 1886

has description | a une description: An image from 1886 showed the statue high on its plinth atop the central pier. Aleema Gray and Daniel Thom describe a sketch of it as follows: ‘This image was echoed eighty years later during the London Dock Workers strike of 1889. By then relocated to the main, or northern gateway, the Milligan statue stood high above the central stone pier. It appeared in illustrated newspapers reporting on the strike, shown towering over the workers and trade unionists who continued to labour in the docks for poor and unreliable wages.’
right held by | droit détenu par: Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

is referred to by | est référencé par: Mick Lemmerman, A Small Corner of the West India Docks; Aleema Gray, Danielle Thom, "“The Surrounding Great Work”: Memory, Erasure, and Curating the Built Environment of the West India Docks, 1802–2022", British Art Studies, Issue 22, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-22/graythom

Cast in Stone