If you’re from Nottingham you’ll know the Broadmarsh area of Nottingham well. It’s a gateway to the city and doesn’t currently represent the amazing people of Nottingham or their history. At the moment it is a building site in need of love.
This community-driven sculpture is going to be placed in the green heart of the new Broad Marsh redevelopment. A space where people from Nottingham can come, relax and connect with each other, and will be one of the first areas new visitors to the city will see.
Read moreA new statue will highlight the contributions and connections between white mill workers in the East Midlands and black enslaved women who grew the raw cotton supplies in the Americas.
The life-size, bronze ‘Standing In This Place’ statue will be placed in Nottingham’s redeveloped Broadmarsh area in summer 2024. It will highlight themes of sorrow, strength and resilience as it portrays the historical links between East Midlands cotton mills in the late 18th to mid 19th century and the raw cotton supplies that were sourced from estates that used enslaved labour.
Read moreRead the summer editions of Radical Routes magazine and Rachel’s article
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