{"id":15,"date":"2008-03-13T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/the-wicker-pirate\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:09:11","slug":"the-wicker-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2008\/03\/the-wicker-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wicker Pirate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To publicize the 125<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the publication of Treasure Island the Long John Silver Trust have commissioned a wicker statue of Long John. This statue had its unveiling at Waterstones book shop in Bristol\u2019s Galleries on Thursday 6<sup>th<\/sup> March (which happened to be World Book Day).<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture, by Stephen Froom of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedwillow.co.uk\/\" title=\"Wicked Willow\">Wicked Willow<\/a>, was unveiled by the Mayor of Bristol, some Waterstones\u2019 pirates, Dumpling The Parrot (from JungleTalk) and yours truly. Helping us were pupils from Hanah  More School.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some pictures of the event. Click then to see larger versions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd1.jpg\" title=\"Mark Steeds And The Mayor of Bristol\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Steeds And The Mayor of Bristol\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd2.jpg\" title=\"Have you met Dumpling?\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Have you met Dumpling?\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd3.jpg\" title=\"If you poo the Council Tax goes up to cover the cleaning bill!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"If you poo the Council Tax goes up to cover the cleaning bill!\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd4.jpg\" title=\"Pupils from Hanah Moore School.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Pupils from Hanah Moore School.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd5.jpg\" title=\"It\u2019s real gold but don\u2019t tell the wicker pirate.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd5.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s real gold but don\u2019t tell the wicker pirate.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd61.jpg\" title=\"Aaaaaarrrrrrrr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd61.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Aaaaaarrrrrrrr\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd7.jpg\" title=\"What have you come as?\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd7.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"What have you come as?\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd8.jpg\" title=\"Don\u2019t Fancy Yours Much.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd8.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Don\u2019t Fancy Yours Much.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd9.jpg\" title=\"From The Bristol Evening Post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wbd9.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"From The Bristol Evening Post\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the what the Long John Silver Trust does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longjohnsilvertrust.co.uk\/\" title=\"Long John Silver Trust\">visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To publicize the 125th anniversary of the publication of Treasure Island the Long John Silver Trust have commissioned a wicker statue of Long John. This statue had its unveiling at Waterstones book shop in Bristol\u2019s Galleries on Thursday 6th March (which happened to be World Book Day). The sculpture, by Stephen Froom of Wicked Willow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-long-john-silver-trust"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Wicker Pirate - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2008\/03\/the-wicker-pirate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Wicker Pirate - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To publicize the 125th anniversary of the publication of Treasure Island the Long John Silver Trust have commissioned a wicker statue of Long John. 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