Walker, Walker Park, Robert Burns Memorial Fountain

HER Number:
13508

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walker, Walker Park, Robert Burns Memorial Fountain

Place:
Walker

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Fountain

Site Type: Specific:
Drinking Fountain

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
In 1901 a statue commemorating Rabbie Burns was erected in Walker Park by the local Burns Club supported by the numerous ship builders who moved to Walker from Clydesdale.The plaque reads 'THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED IN WALKER PARK BY THE WALKER ON TYNE BURNS CLUB ON 13TH JULY 1901 TO MARK THE VISIT TO NEWCASTLE BY ROBERT BURNS ON THE 29TH MAY 1797. REMOVED TO THIS SITE BY THE CITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ON THE 27TH SEPTEMBER 1975'. It is a bronze cast and is in very poor condition. It is presently stored at Jesmond Dene Nursery. The Walker Park lottery bid [2010] has plans to recast the statue and put it back into the park.

Easting:
2891

Northing:
6417

Grid Reference:
NZ28916417

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
pers comm Seamus Tollitt, Ouseburn Parks Manager, 2010; Spence & Dower LLP, June 2011, The Walker Park Memorials 0 Condition Surveys; Evening Chronicle 24 February 1984; Robert Harris Conservation (Conservators of Fine Metalwork, Historic and Modern Sculpture), June 2011, Report and Estimates for the Repair of the Cast Iron Statue of Robert Burns