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[edit] Your addition to the Handsworth Park article

Dear ProCivitate. Very pleased to see the extra information about the Civic Society Garden and the sculture. Can i just check if you are absolutely sure if the nowmissing, stolen sculture, on the plinth in the sunken garden was "a shepherdess". The Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project archive describes it as a "Child with a Lamb". See: http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/BM/WMbiBIxx242.htm Small matter but now that there's an attempt to recover or recreate the piece this information becomes more vital. It was according to the PMSA, commissioned as a result of a sculpture competition organised by Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts in 1932, it was funded by Richard Wheatley, a Handsworth patron of the arts and and ex-student of the College. The brief was for a decorative feature suitable for a park and the competition was open to past and present students.(1) Walker, a student between 1925 and at least 1936, won the first prize of £30 for his model in February 1933 (2) and was awarded a further £250 to carry out his design in bronze. The figure was cast and patinated by the bronze statue founder A.B. Burton of Surrey by September 1936,(3) and the plinth designed with assistance by December. Gratefully accepted by the City the statue was erected in Handsworth Park and officially unveiled by the Lord Mayor. The local press recorded that Wheatley 'had been struck by the fact that all the pieces of sculpture in public places seemed either to be memorials to great citizens or to record some great event. None seemed created out of an artistic appreciation. He hoped that by seeing things of beauty, people would be encouraged to spare a little money from the modern ways of recreation for things of art which would beautify their homes.'(4) Wheatley financed two other art competitions at the College of Art and Crafts, including a mural decoration at Dulwich Road Senior Boys School in 1936. After his death in 1938, he bequeathed £8,000 to the City towards the Birmingham Civic Centre scheme: (see the entry for Bloye's Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, Broad Street). The sculpture is no longer present and its whereabouts and fate are unknown, to all but those of us who living in Handsworth know it was stolen some time in the late 1980s and has never been traced.Sibadd 19:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Publications section

Congratulations on your articles on the The Birmingham Civic Society. I noticed that you are using Publications as a section heading. I find that editors tend to use References or Sources when they have used such books or sites as evidence for their work, and Further reading or Bibliography for publications not used as references. See Wikipedia:Guide to layout#References. It is important for the quality of Wikipedia that sources are cited. Unsourced material may be removed by other editors. All the best. Oosoom Talk to me 12:25, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Postal Orders of Great Britain

Do you have sources for your comments about the John Skirrow Wright additions you made? You really need to cite your sources for that. Cheers ww2censor 04:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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