Save this gentle giant
Brian Swanson
The Scottish Sunday Express
9 July 2006

Helen Crummy, a bonny fechter if ever their was one, is rightly
held in high esteem in Craigmillar, Edinburgh, where more than
30 years ago she helped found the Craigmillar Festival Society
in an area which then was a by word in deprivation.
Helen, still active in her 80's, is currently backing locals to save a
public sculpture under threat from housing development.
Entitled Gulliver the Gentle Giant, it was designed by Jimmy
Boyle and built more than 30 years ago by local volunteers, and
is still well used by the grandchildren of those who watched it
being built. AS well as providing somewhere a child's
imagination can thrive, it is, above all, a potent symbol of the
area's regeneration and as such deserves to be saved.
And in a neat piece of symmentry the man leading the protests is
Helen's artist son, Andrew, who has clearly inherited his
mother's genes when it comes to challenging authority. That's
why this week mother and son are worthy joint winners of the
latest Silver Swanney, which as we know, ia as coveted as it is
fictitious.