edinburgh77 Statue of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) by the Grangemouth Terracotta Works, Grangemouth, Scotland The statues of Queen Victoria and her husband (displayed in the opposite niche) reflect the enormous enthusiasm for the royal couple in Scotland in the 1840s and 1850s. They are made of Barclay, which is found between seams of coal, but normally used for making bricks, chimney pots and drainage pipes. The owners of the Grangemouth Coal Company, the Mackay brothers, seem to have been inspired by the impressive fireclay vases and figures being produced by the Garnkirk Coal Company, outside Glasgow, in the 1840s. They employed an English modeler and designer, John Wornell, and exhibited vases and other items at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Some products were exported, and the company displayed items at an exhibition in Hamburg in 1869.