A Berwickshire memorial to the Eyemouth Disaster, picked by Jack Lowden for emotional weight.
St Abbs
A small seaside village on the Berwickshire coast, home to one of Scotland's quietly devastating public memorials. The sculptures Jack Lowden refers to commemorate the 1881 Eyemouth Disaster, when a sudden storm killed 189 fishermen along this stretch of coast in a single afternoon.
"There was a huge storm in the 1880s off the coast of the Southeast of Scotland, in which 189 fishermen perished. And an artist, I think Jill Watson, made these incredibly evocative sculptures representing the women and fatherless children left behind. The sculptures are up the south east coast at different spots, but the best one is in St Abbs (which is also a beautiful little seaside town), and the sculptures are positioned facing out to sea, and frame the sea in such a moving way."
Jill Watson's series of bronze figures stands at Eyemouth, St Abbs, Burnmouth and Cove, each looking out to the water that took their husbands and fathers.
