Dr Salter's Daydream - a wide view & vignettes - 12.4.2018

Dr.Salter was a Bermondsey doctor between WW1 & WW2, who insisted on living in the deprived area in which he worked and sent his daughter to a local school. She caught an infectious disease, scarlet fever I think, and died. This sculpture shows Dr. Salter sitting beside the Thames thinking about his daughter after she died. Dr. Salter's sculpture was stolen by metal thieves in 2011. The original group may seen at www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/25875009
The stolen figure was replaced in 2014 with a stylistically different Dr.Salter, sitting stolidly on a slab of stone. His wife Ada has now joined the group in recognition of her own work in the community. She became the first female Mayor of Bermondsey. Her enthusiasm for gardening has been displayed by having one of her hands a receptacle for gifts of flowers, the other rests on a spade.
A search for Dr Salter's Daydream will bring up Diane Gorvin's website with the group's history.