North Shields, Customs House Quay, wooden dolly 4

HER Number:
4494

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Customs House Quay, wooden dolly 4

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Sculpture

Site Type: Specific:
Statue

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
The fourth wooden dolly was carved by May Spence of North Shields at the bequest of her father Alderman John Foster Spence. This dolly took the form of a fishwife with a creel on her back. She was unveiled on Coronation Day 26th June 1902. The fourth dolly lasted until 1957 when she became so damaged she had to be replaced. Her missing right elbow was presented to a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Two ladies from North Shields found the dolly in a breaker's yard in Whitby.

Easting:
3583

Northing:
6820

Grid Reference:
NZ35836820

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Keith Armstrong (ed.), 1994, The Wooden Dolly - the story of the North Shields Wooden Dolly