The story behind a Northallerton sculpture has been beside the artwork.
The Sophia sculpture has stood overlooking the former town prison development, Treadmills, since July 2023.
But the story explaining her history has now been penned on the wall of the neighbouring campus building.
The eight-foot-high sculpture depicts the youngest female inmate ever incarcerated in Northallerton’s former prison with a warden.
The Ballad of Sophia sculpture was created by artist Ray Lonsdale.
In 1872, 11-year-old Sophia Constable was jailed for stealing a loaf of bread from a shop in Whitby.
She was sentenced to three weeks of hard labour and four years in a reformatory.
Sophia claimed she stole the bread out of hunger.
The prison site has now been converted into a retail, business, education and leisure destination.
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