Unearthed (Lidice)
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In October 2012 artists Winstanley and Nadin won the commission to design and build a commemorative sculpture in the new city centre of Stoke-on-Trent, Hanley. The sculpture was to have two functions; to clad an ugly but necessary electrical substation next to the new bus station development and to commemorate the link between the location and the Czech village and population of Lidice. Lidice was by the Nazi’s in 1942 in retaliation for the assassination of Nazi Lieutenant General and Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich. Hitler is said to have exclaimed ‘Lidice shall die’, and hundreds of men, women and children were killed – either executed or transported to concentration camps. The destruction of Lidice inspired the then Stoke-on-Trent City Councillor Sir Barnett Stross and hundreds of the city’s miners to pledge a day's pay per week to rebuild the village.

Title

Unearthed (Lidice)

Date

2013

Medium

steel

Measurements

H 579 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

ST1_IB_S012

Acquisition method

commissioned by Stoke on Trent City Council

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

Stoke on Trent City Council

Custodian

Stoke on Trent City Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

a quote from Sir Barnett Stross is etched into the surface of the piece: IT CAN ALSO SEND A RAY OF LIGHT ACROSS THE SEA TO THOSE WHO STRUGGLE IN DARKNESS Sir Barnett Stross

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Located at

Lidice Way, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

ST1 3AD

Midway up Lidice Way and incorporated architecturally into a new substation.