Wick gardening club members get update on memorial to seafarers
Members of Wick and District Gardening Club have been given an insight into the memorial to lost seafarers being planned for the town.
Willie Watt, chairman of the Seafarers Memorial Group, was guest speaker at the club's monthly meeting in the Nethercliffe Hotel last Tuesday.
He gave a presentation about the monument that will be erected at the Braehead next year as a tribute to those lost at sea from or in the WK registration area, which stretches from Talmine in the west across to Stroma and down as far as Golspie.
Rising to a height of five metres, the solitary bronze figure will symbolise how the sea "gives with one hand and takes away with the other".
The design was revealed at a public meeting in the town in June organised by the Seafarers Memorial Group and attended by the sculptor, Alan Beattie Herriot.
Mr Watt, who is Vice-Lieutenant of Caithness, and his wife Valerie attended the recent service in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, to commemorate the death of Queen Elizabeth II and he talked about the experience.
The club will hold its AGM in October.