This isn’t the best photo in the world of Cone Head, but I snapped it on the hurry. Should it stay or should it go, the cone that is! This statue and cone is a popular subject at the moment. Being a grumpy old git, well not that old, this always makes me smile when I see it. It is a constant battle between the authorities and Joe public. It gets my VOTE to stay, it needs to stay. Its a Glasgow thing…. and that’s coming from a Southerner
Glasgow City Council were talking about making the plinth taller to stop people putting the cone on the Duke of Wellington’s head. It is causing damage to the statue and costs £10,000 a year to get workmen out to remove it.
I don’t think I have ever seen the statue without the cone on top.
I think it would be a better idea, to make a Bronze cone and fit it on. Would be cheaper long term and solve the red and white plastic cone problem….
Glad you like my blog, yours is pretty good too. I’m a Glaswegian living in Hove so appreciate the post ‘coned out of his head’