Lovely warm light in Roberts Park on a late afternoon in winter. These are familiar scenes and yet always fresh and different, very dear to me.
Sir Titus Salt was a successful businessman, a man of vision and apparently a very honourable man. No wonder they erected a statue to honour him. I'm sure he was proud during his life of the legacy he left us: his mill and his village. He might perhaps have been even more gratified to know it is still thriving in the 21st century (albeit in a different way). He died on 29 December 1876, 144 years ago today.
Sir Titus was fortunate to live whilst the British Empire was flourishing. The British could determine the conditions of trade buying in raw materials cheaply and selling the manufactured product into a captive market dear. This sound business practise based on solid economic theory is unfortunately now considered by a younger generation as somehow immoral. Sovereignty is lovely, but one cannot eat it.
ReplyDeleteQuite a statue.
ReplyDeleteLove the early morning light casting long shadows (or it could be late evening I guess!) Yes, the industrialists did leave their legacies, and Salt seems to have thought of how to build his village and how to be remembered.
ReplyDeleteHe must have been a wonderful man!
ReplyDeleteAgree about the light.
ReplyDeleteWonderful light glazing the statue!
ReplyDeleteHe certainly had modern ideas.
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