The Statue at Bothwell Park.
How many times have you walked past this statue at Bothwell Park?
Stephen Danks asked us: "This statue stands in the Bothwell Road park, in Whitehill, does anyone know what it signifies ?"
The sculpture is of the Fall of Mazeppa in Bothwell Road Park, Hamilton (severely vandalised) and King James V of Scotland being attacked by Gypsies at Cramond Bridge, Edinburgh.
The sculpture has been displaced from it's original site at Earnock and Neilsland estates were “The sculpted during 1834. and has been on display since 1926 in Hamilton’s Bothwell Rd Public Park. It was Sculpted in 1834 and inspired by the poem by Byron, Mazeppa was an Ukranian prince who served the king of Poland and after being discovered in an affair with the wife of a Polish count was tied naked to the back of a horse and sent galloping through a thick forest as punishment. The sculpture has been vandalised to the point of abstraction and remains largely forgotten.
The Statue at Bothwell Park.
“The Gentle Shepherd” sculpted 1852. statues have been on display since 1926 in Hamilton’s Bothwell Rd Public Park. and is another that was purchased for the Earnock and Neilsland estates but now lies forgotten in the park.