On the churchyard wall behind the statue there's a map showing a Robert Louis Stevenson trail that you can follow round Colinton Village.
You can read more about the statue on the Water of Leith Conservation trust website.
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Robert Louis Stevenson by the Water of Leith
A handsome new statue commemorating Robert Louis Stevenson was recently unveiled outside Colinton Parish Church (where Stevenson's grandfather was a church minister), very close to the Water of Leith.
There's an inscription on the statue taken from his essay collection, Memories and Portraits, which reads:
“All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the
pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end,
which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one
to read, one to write in.”
On the churchyard wall behind the statue there's a map showing a Robert Louis Stevenson trail that you can follow round Colinton Village.
Meanwhile inside the churchyard there is a yew tree, where Stevenson had a swing when he was young.
You can read more about the statue on the Water of Leith Conservation trust website.
On the churchyard wall behind the statue there's a map showing a Robert Louis Stevenson trail that you can follow round Colinton Village.
You can read more about the statue on the Water of Leith Conservation trust website.
what a neat piece!
ReplyDeleteHe has always been very popular here in Italy, maybe one of my very ( few!) readings ( in Italian only it goes without saying ) in the first fifteen years of my life!
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween!xx Speedy
ReplyDeleteIt is a beautiful place to remember this wonderful author.
ReplyDeleteIt's about time! Great work.
ReplyDeletea fine statue. :)
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windblown leaves
What a great sentiment. When I was on a tour in Scotland ten years ago, the guide pointed out an inn where he was supposed to have done some of his writing. I believe it was under a bridge near the Firth of Forth.
ReplyDeleteI have just read about Stevenson Juliet. I think you make far more of your writers in Scotland than we do down here - that is such a good thing.
ReplyDeleteHi Juliet,
ReplyDeleteA wonderful statue to a great Author. I liked that he had two books in his pocket, one to read and one to write in.
Happy weekend
hugs
Carolyn
oh wonderful - good on him :)
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