I wouldn't miss any statues of people

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Right from being a kid and first being aware of statues of famous people I never saw the point.

I wouldn't miss a single one, actually; even the ones to people I liked like Victoria Wood and Eric Morecambe - why don't we just chuck them all in the sea?

Agree. I really can’t understand why people are working themselves up into a frenzy about a few statues being removed. Who cares.

I'm with you. The only statues I'd miss are ones with nice horses or other animals on. All those plinths could be used for contemporary modern sculptures, something that would enhance their area.

Totally agree, who even notices any statues? Whether you're a local or a tourist do you notice statues?

People who are complaining about them being taken down probably couldn't even name their 10 closest statues 😁

I’m with you, would we be keeping statues of Jimmy Saville up as a testimonial to his ‘charity’ work???
No, we would not...
If people are genuinely worried about the ‘erasure’ of history then pull them down and put them in local museums with a full biography of everything they did during their lives. So if the local ‘hero’ build hospitals with money made in the slave trade then it says so.

I don’t get why if they matter so much, why wouldn’t they just put them in a museum with the others. At least they would be inside not getting damaged by the elements.

Agree. Pull them all down and put them in museums, these statues were for thier time, now I don't see the point. Dont want to erase the past, but don't see the need now.

I vote for replacing statues with flowers, plants, trees that would enhance the area and nature, help fight pollution and climate change and give the community colour, and prehaps even a sense of community helping to maintain and care for the flowers etc, much better use of space in this day and age, IMO.

I can't help feeling Victoria Wood would have been a bit horrified there's a statue to her - unfortunately we can't ask her - or else she'd have come up with a pithy answer that made us chuckle.

Most of them (statues) are just monuments to people almost no-one cares about as far as I can see.

I love ancient statues in museums. And big monuments or structures ie the angel of the north, but can't get worked up about any other statues.

Well I would object to statues of Robert Burns being taken down. No doubt MN would disagree since he was a terrible womaniser.

Or the Scott monument in Edinburgh. Or the statue of Donald Dewar
www.rampantscotland.com/glasgow/glw_dewar.htm

Make them into waxworks and put them in Madame Tussauds.

Michaelangelo's David? Chuck it in the sea? Angel of the North?

Commemorative statues are just invisible to me but part of history, so I'm not bothered. I don't like newer statues either. I think they've had their day.

@Vivi0

Agree. I really can’t understand why people are working themselves up into a frenzy about a few statues being removed. Who cares.

I don't care about the statues but it won't stop there.

I like the statue of Liberte, the statue of David, Verity in Devon by Hirst...lots of statues are fabulous...but slavers? Not so much.

Liberty

Sorry, OP, but you really don't sound very intelligent. IMO.

I was just saying the same thing to DH this morning. What do commemorative statues even do? They hardly ever have any obvious context or historical description and if they do it is very brief and celebratory. They're not actual people are they.

It will be very sad to rid the world of all statues...it is art after all. And i was happy about the statue in Bristol coming doewe n but now uneasy about where it all ends. The Arc de triumph is also a master piece

Artistic statues - where the object is of interest not the subject - is different altogether.

Derxa what about the one of Mel Gibson at Stirling castle?

I like some statues if they're in a good setting e.g. Brythnoth in Maldon, Essex, King Alfred in Winchester. Loads of good World War I soldier ones all round the country and further afield, and I would love to see the Mother Russia one at Volgograd as that looks amazing. And as pp said, ancient ones from Greece, Rome, Egypt etc. I think it would be really weird and pointless to pull them all down?!

I love statues, I think they’re fascinating and at times very beautiful.

I have no issues with the statues that have been removed recently having been removed. I don’t believe we need to get rid of them all.

Derxa what about the one of Mel Gibson at Stirling castle?

I think if they symbolise something they're good, unless they glorify something that shouldn't be glorified.

But a statue of a person that glorifies that person without giving any context (as is often the case) should, well, not necessarily be brought down, but certainly should be up for discussion?

@caperberries

Sorry, OP, but you really don't sound very intelligent. IMO.

Ha ha ha