Eleanor Rigby statue located on Stanley Street, Liverpool, was designed and made by the entertainer Tommy Steele.
The statue was erected in 1982 as a tribute to the Fab Four and dedicated to the song "All the Lonely people" which was released on 5th August 1996 as a double A-side single with "Yellow Submarine" on their landmark album Revolver.
The statue consists of a bronze figure on a stone bench. The figure is 128 cm (50 in) tall, 120 cm (47 in) wide, and 96 cm (38 in) deep. It depicts a seated woman with a handbag on her lap, a shopping bag on her right, and a copy of the Liverpool Echo on her left. Poking from the shopping bag is a milk bottle, and on the newspaper is a sparrow and a piece of bread. The woman is looking down at the sparrow. Sadly in October 2019 the bronze newspaper along with the inscripion plaque was stolen, it has since been restored.
Steele included what he described as "magical properties" in his design, all hidden inside the bronze figure and representing a different facet of life. These were: a four-leaf clover (for good luck), a page from the Bible (for spiritual guidance), football boots (representing sport and fun), a comic book (for comedy and adventure), and a sonnet (for love).
Logging Requirements
Please send your answers to the following questions to me via the email or the message center:
1) Take a photo sat with Eleanor (you don’t need to show your face), or a photo with Eleanor and a piece of paper inclunding your caching name and upload onto your log.
2) What is the headline on the Liverpool Echo newspaper Eleanor is reading?
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