Largs councillor Grace McLean is pursuing the restoration of a plaque in memory of the unemployed workers who built the original Bowen Craig path in 1906.
The plaque, which was originally on the path, was moved to a cairn beside the Pencil for everybody to see, but earlier in the year it was forcibly removed by a thief, and has never returned.
Grace said: “A new plaque had been ordered, but the company involved in providing it had ceased trading. Another company has been sourced, and we are hoping to get two plaques put on the cairn, one to commemorate the original work in 1906, and another to commemorate the new path. It is already in the process of getting reproduced.
“It is dreadful that we lost the original plaque to vandals, and I am hoping that there will be additional security, or at the very least, that it is more securely positioned so that it doesn’t happen again.”
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