A Rescued Boy

This statue can be found at the entrance to Paisley Close in the Royal Mile, Edinburgh. It commemorates the rescue of a young boy, Joseph McIver, on the 24th November 1861 when the rotten timbers of the building then standing on the spot where Paisley Close now is collapsed trapping the inhabitants. When rescuers attempted to dig them out Joseph cried: "Heave away, men, I'm no deid yet". This became the quotation on the scupture  of Joseph that says: "Heave away, chaps, I'm no dead yet". 
More about my day out in Edinburgh can be found here