Bill the Basher

Another gorgeous day, I am really thinking Spring is here....it'll be daffys and Hot Cross buns a-go-go before we know it!

Super walk this morning, and then a small pokette through the Vintage Clothes Establishments Charity Shops this afternoon, I am going back at the weekend, when I have time to try stuff on, lots and lots of things caught my eye today!

This blip may be the beginning of a series, we have a good few sculptures locally and it's been at the back of my mind to blip them for a while.

Bill the Smith

Installed in 2001. Originally made as a plaster in
1937, this is the last of the large sculptures to be
cast in bronze. The model was William Windsor
Laurence, known as 'Bill the Basher', who worked
as a blacksmith at Harry Maiden's in the New
Wynd. It is characteristic of Lamb's work that he
used local people to model for his sculpture.

Info from the Montrose Society