Conservation technologies were asked by the Post Office and Met Quarter Development to conserve the Tyson Smith Post Office Memorial and install it into the new Met Quarter shopping precinct on the site of the old Post Office in Liverpool city centre.
The monument had to be adapted for the area within which it was to be relocated. This meant removing the plinth on which the memorial plaques (gilded lettering on slate) were originally mounted, as the new site could not take the full height nor weight of the statue and plinth. The original plaques could not be safely removed from the plinth so the solution was to laser scan them and produce high quality replicas in the same materials so that they could be installed on the wall behind the monument.
Have a look at images taken during the replication of the plaques in the image gallery below. In separate case studies on this website you can see how conservation technologies conserved the memorial sculpture and produced commemorative medals, as part of the same commission.
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