Highland Light Infantry : Kelvingrove Park Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/4/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Highland Light Infantry Memorial. This place is usually full of muggles so stealth and patience definately required. The size of the cache is Nano. PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHEN REPLACING THE CACHE AS IT SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED.

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Leading Scots sculptor William Birnie Rhind was responsible for this 1906 naturalistic memorial to the HLI soldiers who died on various South African campaigns at the start of the 20th century. Rhind was best known for work in his native Edinburgh (in Princes Street Gardens, in St Giles, and on the facades of the Scotsman, Jenners and Portrait Gallery buildings), but also had commissions as far away as Australia and Canada. His interpretation of an infantryman clambering over a rock was the first of several dynamic military monuments in Kelvingrove Park (although it was first proposed to be situated in Glasgow Green).


N55* 52.234 W004* 17.115

Across the Prince of Wales Bridge from the anonymous soldier of the HLI, stands one of Victorian Scotland's greatest men of letters, Thomas Carlyle. Sculpted out of three massive blocks of grey granite by Glasgow artist William Kellock Brown, this unusual bust has Carlyle's head, shoulders and arms emerging nobly from the coarsely cleft stone. Although the Dumfriesshire-born and Chelsea-based writer died in 1881, it was not until 1911 that the memorial was commissioned (and was not unveiled for another five years). Carlyle was one of 19th-century Britain's most influential writers and commentators, best known for his translations of the German Romantics, his history of the French Revolution, his biographies of Cromwell and Frederick the Great, and his essays on Chartism and the Reform Act. Apparently he had no particular link with Glasgow other than his portrait by Whistler, whose purchase by the City Corporation became a major turning point in the struggling artist's career (and a major factor for the bequest of the bulk of the Whistler estate to the University of Glasgow many years later). Unfortunately, petty vandalism has been a persistent problem for many of Kelvingrove's fine monuments; over the past decade or so, Carlyle's granite nose has been hacked off and repaired on numerous occasions.

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