MYSTERY OF MOTHER AND CHILD SCULPTURE LOCATION SOLVED

All this week we have been posting photographs taken by Bernard Doyle in the 1960s and 1970s which had lain in a bag for many, many years before Phil Rawnley contacted us to see if they were of any use, obviously we were delighted and Carl using his technical magic managed to restore many of the slides.

Amongst them was one of two Nursing Sisters outside the long, demolished Maternity Unit they have been identified as being Sister Annie Norton an Sister Mary Cherry at Hope Hospital, but the burning question was, what has happened to the sculpture of the Mother and Child?

The photograph sparked a huge debate about both, the Nursing Sisters and the location of the sculpture with it has to be said, very wild guesses ranging from it has been stolen, it's in a Museum and it's in storage at the hospital. All wrong I am happy to say.

My good friend John Bolton knew the exact location in the hospital and kindly sent me several photographs, and told me that:

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"The sculpture is in the Memorial Garden the garden is still wonderfully maintained.. anyone wishing to visit it is situated adjacent to the entrance near the Christie building at the far end of the Ladywell building car park."

Great to see that is has been saved and is in a fitting location, a garden where you can contemplate on loved and lost one's.

I was told that the sculpture may be the work of Arthur Dooley a Liverpudlian artist and I am inclined to agree, can anybody confirm this?

Many thanks for all your contributions and especially to John Bolton for taking the time to photograph and name the location.