Margaret Thatcher’s hometown reveals tribute ideas
ByThe Courier Reporter
An artists impression of how a statue of Mrs Thatcher could look outside Grantham Museum.
The first pictures showing how Margaret Thatcher could be honoured in her hometown have been revealed.
Two potential statue designs depict the Iron Lady holding her famous handbag and standing tall in the centre of Grantham while a third portrays her in a more relaxed pose sitting down.
Mrs Thatcher’s statue could be placed outside Grantham Museum and just metres away from a sculpture of Sir Isaac Newton, who was educated in the town and brought up in the nearby Woolsthorpe Manor.
Proposals for a statue in Grantham of the UK’s first female prime minister, who died in April aged 87, have proved to be controversial with suggestions it might need to be on a plinth to protect it from vandals.
Mrs Thatcher, latterly Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, grew up in the Lincolnshire town and was the daughter of a grocer.
Margaret Thatcher’s hometown reveals tribute ideas
