Pam TaylorARBS (1929–2014) was a Welsh sculptor. She created many bronze sculptures by commission, including several memorials relating to the
Royal Air Force.[1]
A memorial to the RAF Commonwealth and Allied Air Forces who served in World War II was unveiled in 1989 on
Plymouth Hoe in Devon.[1] A bronze statue, "The Unknown Airman", is on a plinth of Cornish granite.[2][5]
A bronze statue of an airman, on a stone plinth, was unveiled in 1999 in Pier Gardens in
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. It commemorates the members of
RAF North Coates Strike Wing who served in World War II.[6][7]
Statues made in 2001 of
Bob Dylan and
Woody Guthrie, commissioned by
Felix Dennis, are in the Garden of Heroes and Villains nea Dorsington, Warwickshire.[3]
"The Long March", in the
Royal Air Force Museum London, was unveiled in 2003 by
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. It is a memorial to RAF prisoners of war who died during a march westward in early 1945 from their prisoner-of-war camps, enforced in order to prevent their being liberated by advancing Russian forces. The bronze sculpture shows a PoW dragging a makeshift sled containing his possessions.[8][9] The Royal Air Force Museum also contains bronze busts made by Taylor in 1978 of Sir
Douglas Bader and Sir
Arthur Harris.[2]
"Canvey Old and New", in Labworth Park,
Canvey Island in Essex, was commissioned by Essex County Council and unveiled in 2005. A competition was organised by Essex Youth Service, and the winning design by Vicky Moore was sculpted by Taylor.[10] A hand rising from the water holds a representation of Canvey Island.[11][12]