Members of Wick and District Gardening Membership have been given an perception into the memorial to misplaced seafarers being deliberate for the city.
Willie Watt, chairman of the Seafarers Memorial Group, was visitor speaker on the membership’s month-to-month assembly within the Nethercliffe Resort final Tuesday.
He gave a presentation concerning the monument that might be erected on the Braehead subsequent yr as a tribute to these misplaced at sea from or within the WK registration space, which stretches from Talmine within the west throughout to Stroma and down so far as Golspie.
Rising to a top of 5 metres, the solitary bronze determine will symbolise how the ocean “provides with one hand and takes away with the opposite”.
The design was revealed at a public assembly within the city in June organised by the Seafarers Memorial Group and attended by the sculptor, Alan Beattie Herriot.
Mr Watt, who’s Vice-Lieutenant of Caithness, and his spouse Valerie attended the current service in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, to commemorate the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II and he talked concerning the expertise.
The membership will maintain its AGM in October.
