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Working from Aldridge Road round to Queslet Road, they depict eight members of the Society:

  • design

  • Erasmus Darwin Portrait & design for Horizontal Windmill

  • Wheel


  • Matthew Boulton : Medal with his portrait


  • equipment

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  • (with words from his book ''An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses'')


The stones also each have a phase of the moon carved on them, with Watt's being the full moon.

The designs are by Steve Field and were executed by two stone masons, Malcolm Sier and Michael Scheurmann.

Great Barr Hall , Galton's home and a venue for meetings of the Lunar Society, is nearby.