Mary Anning Statue

We went to Lyme Regis today, and visited the statue of the pioneering 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning. This was unveiled in her home town of Lyme Regis on what would have been her 222nd birthday on Saturday 21 May 2022 by Professor Alice Roberts.
The installation of the statue marked the culmination of a four year campaign by the Mary Anning Rocks group which was started by schoolgirl Evie Swire, then aged 11 and her mother, Anya Pearson. 
Evie and her mum Anya started the campaign to install a long overdue statue in Mary’s hometown back in 2018. Evie regularly goes fossil hunting in the same spots that Mary Anning uncovered her most prestigious finds and could not understand why a permanent memorial to her did not exist.
Campaign group Mary Anning Rocks was formed, raising more than £100,000 for a bronze statue which was created by sculptor Denise Dutton.

Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis in 1799 and went on to become a pioneering palaeontologist. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life, but her work was never properly recognised. Mary Anning was widely snubbed by the scientific community and never fully credited for her discoveries because she was a working-class woman with little formal education.
The organisation is continuing to raise the money to create Mary's Learning Legacy, a sustainable educational programme that will live on and help the next generation of Earth scientists to follow in Mary's footsteps.
Sorry, I missed the dog which is out of sight