The steel sculpture depicts a life-size smuggler and his apprentice, with the six-foot adult carrying a barrel of brandy on his shoulder.
Ray Lonsdale's prose reads:
If someone whispers, you whisper back,
If someone shouts, you run.
But keep away from the well-worn track,
For there waits a man with a gun.
Mrs. Robinson, the financier, mentioned, “From my childhood visits to Flamborough, I became fascinated by the smugglers' cove.
Since then, I have researched the history of smuggling, particularly in Robin Hood's Bay and the old areas of Scarborough.
I aimed to capture some of that heritage."