This beautiful sculpture Ginger the Horse who is situated in the piazza at the east end of Cathcart Street in Greenock. The sculpture is by Andy Scott.
We are told that Ginger represents all the horses who pulled carts down
at Greenock's docks, and one in particular who was being backed up to unload
his cart onto the dockside.
Unfortunately the cart did not stop and plunged into the river - taking
poor Ginger with it. Ginger could not be
saved and his owner was distraught. This,
apparently is a true story and took place on 23 October 1889.
Talking of cart horses, did you know that it was
Greenock's own James Watt
who coined the term "horsepower"?
The Greenockian
