A bespoke mural can tell your story
- Zena Barrick
- Jul 29
- 1 min read
Steam Ship Galeka
Built in 1899 by Harland and Wolff the Steam Ship Galeka was named after a South African tribe, her primary destination until the First World War. She was refitted as a hospital ship and in 1916 while entering Le Havre she struck a German mine destroying the ship and killing all nineteen Royal Army Medical Corps personnel on board.
Tribute to the Blue Coat alumin killed in the Great War
Sir Owen Philips, Chesters MP and Chairman of the ships owners requested the ships bell be brought back to Chester and placed on top of the Bluecoat building to honour those who had fought in the Great War. Over one hundred alumni of the Bluecoat School had enlisted of which twelve were killed.
Charity with a proud history
The sinking of the Galeka is only one chapter in the Bluecoat buildings long history. The
Chester Bluecoat Charity is the current incarnation of an institution that’s been on the same site since the Civil War.
Chester Bluecoats has been a school, a hospital, a university history department and now a charity hub. So how to convey this complex history to your visitors giving them a sense of who you are as they arrive?
A bespoke mural shows the Bluecoat's long and unique history
A bespoke mural can take three hundred years of history from multiple sources and boil it down into a cohesive tale that’s easily taken in between reception and the meeting room.
