European Emigration to America - Hull, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 44.238 W 000° 20.192
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This statue shows a family that having arrived in Hull from Europe are on their way to Liverpool to board a ship to America.
Waymark Code: WM14K8R
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/19/2021
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The statue depicts a European family that have landed in Hull and are about to start their next part of the trip to America.
The husband and wife have minimal luggage and have two young children with them.
The mother is supporting a young girl taking some of her earliest steps. Behind the father who is standing with his hand on his wife's shoulder is a young boy. The young boy is using a stick to play with a crab.
The group stands on a small plinth which has an inscription on each of the four faces.
Neil Hadlock's sculpture depicts a family from Northern
Europe having left ship before continuing to Paragon
Station by train to Liverpool then by ship
to America
This statue is located on the reclaimed land
at the "Bullnose" where ships waited for
high tide before entering Humber Dock.
Statue donated 2001 to Kingston upon Hull
by the Sea Trek Foundation of America
as they retraced their descendants journey
in Tall Ships from Northern Europe
Over 2,200,000 people passed through Hull
and other Humber Ports to America
between 1836 and 1914