Girl on a Suitcase

It was a beautiful spring morning as I was driving through Gourock, so I stopped to take a photograph of the sculpture, "Girl on a Suitcase".

This nostalgic sculpture of a 1950s schoolgirl depicts her looking to the future. I liked the spring feel with the crocuses in flower.

The charming piece of public art, sitting on the grassy knoll outside Cleats Bar on Kempock Street, depicts a young girl, sitting on her suitcase, about to go on holiday "Doon the Watter". She is scanning the horizon, full of anticipation and excitement about exploration and discoveries that may lie ahead. The words, "The Sweetest of Songs is the Song of the Clyde" are inscribed on the base of the sculpture.

The bronze sculpture of the "Girl on a Suitcase" is part of the Scottish Government's Town Centre Regeneration funding initiative and was the very popular winner of a public vote in Gourock, which saw the sculptress, Angela Hunter of Innerleithen, being commissioned by Inverclyde Council and Riverside Inverclyde to produce the figure.