Family Group
Yesterday I used a picture I'd ganked from Google Images of the Queen in Billingham. It was said to be of the official opening of the Forum. On closer inspection though it is slightly earlier that day when she opened the Art Gallery and unveiled the Family Group statue in the Town Square. The stands you see were on three sides of the statue and I was in the middle one on the right of this picture but I'm out of shot. The building in the distance is the Billingham Arms Hotel extension with Roy's Furniture store underneath - now Lloyds-TSB and a charity shop.
The statue is by Edward Bainbridge Copnall who died six years after the unveiling.
His other public works include another Family Group in Dudley, Warwickshire. This one is carved from oak unlike Billingham's which is fibreglass.
