At Scarborough: Resting in his arms...

A giant iron man sits all day looking out to sea.

The children kept him company for a short while. They climbed onto his knee, and lay back for a rest. Its funny. Sam is was reading the story of the 'Iron man' school. I always think how huge metal structures are portrayed as cold as their fabricated material.

Of course, in some respects its true to the story of Freddie Gilroy. The man who is depicted here. He is friend of the sculptor and one of the first people to relieve his experience in the Belsen concentration camp in WW2. His seated position is a reminder to all of the people who were torn from their everyday lives into the horror of war. A reminiscing man. A reminiscing man with 3 children on his knee. There it is a plaque nearby.

"They said for king and country
we should do as we were bid,
They said old soldiers never die
but plenty young ones did."



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