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Statue of Industry
Sculpture by Herbert Maryon
Statue of Industry
Statue of Industry was a 1929 sculpture by the English artist Herbert Maryon. The 23-foot (7-metre) tall work depicted a woman with a model of Tyne-built RMS Mauretania in one hand, a model of a turbo alternator in the other, and three children at her feet. It was a prominent attraction at the North East Coast Exhibition, a world's fair-type event in Newcastle intended to showcase the manufacturing-centric capabilities of a region which was in the midst of a post-war recession. It remained at the Exhibition from May 1929 opening to October 1929 closing. Afterwards, the plaster-on-steel statue was copper-metalized to better withstand the elements, and sold to the engineering firm A. Reyrolle & Company in Hebburn; it remained there until at least 1931. Statue of Industry, wrote a local paper, "had her admirers; she had her withering critics". Writing at the outset of the Exhibition that the statue "impressed all who gazed on it", the paper nonetheless came to term it "a monstrosity", and...
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