Education

Very gloomy, grey day which lent itself to a passing snap of the second of two bronze panels by E G Gillick - this one depicting 'Education'. Dated 1910 the panel eschews the virtues of learning for alll. The schooling of the poor was at the forefront of public debate at the time. Board Schools had been set up in 1870 and by 1891 education was free to all, still in 1910 there were over 2 million children working in factories and mines in England and Wales. This would have been a very topical subject in an industrial town in the heart of Lancashire and is still a striking image.

A second panel with the subject of public access to clean drinking water was the subject of an earlier blip here