Memorial

Our Lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool - Civilian Blitz Victims

The statue, full frontal view

Source: Copyright Mark Littler

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Current Location

Old churchyard, Our Lady and St Nicholas Church, 20, Chapel Street, Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 8TZ, England

SJ 33959 90498

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Sculptured / Cast group
WMR Reference Number: 52666
Description: Bronze casting of a spiral staircase with woman holding baby and her older son standing on the the upper part of the staircase holding a toy plane. The Sculptor envisaged the Mother clutching her child while encouraging the son to come back down the stairs to a safer place. The boy is lost in the excitment of war. The staircase, shrinking as it rises, symbolises diminishing options for the family group and also depicts the way bombs spiral as they fall. Each stair has jagged edges symbolising the effects of glass shards. Finally, the aeroplane model held by the boy is symbolic as an instrument of destruction or as a Cross of Remembrance to all those who died in the Blitz. There is an interpretative plaque on a stand nearby.
Inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF THE CITIZENS OF LIVERPOOL AND BOOTLE/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE BLITZ OF 1940-42./ THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY/ HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH KG KT/ 7TH JULY 2000

Unveiled

7 July 2000

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

Figures

Made from: Brass

Condition: Good