Totem poles

I sometimes go shopping at the Havant retail park. I noticed that there are a lot of totem poles dotted around the site. I had to Google why. 
They were created by Robert Koenig and tell the story about local leather glove production which formerly occupied the site, and the transition from the trades and skills of the old town to the new. These two original ones have the following storyline. On one pole a woman/mother dressed in clothes from the early part of the 20 century, has a young contemporary boy on her shoulders and on the second, a contemporary man/father has a young girl dressed in clothes from the early part of the 20 century sitting on his shoulders. 
Amazing how art can take so many different forms.

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