Viva El Cone Head

Garry F McHarg FOCAL Scotland

The noble Duke of York may have had 10,000 men, but the Duke of Wellington has 10,000 Glaswegians behind him. It seems that a statue of the gentleman, erected in Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square in 1844, struck many as lacking a certain gravitas. And so a tradition was born: topping the head with a traffic cone. What to do? Recently, the City Council decided to raise the statue beyond the reach of vandals, and what happened? More than 10,000 Glaswegians signed a petition to keep it as is: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-14/scottish-statue-traffic-cone-petition/5090490