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This sculpture was first installed in 2003, just outside this station, in what is now named Hope Square, when it looked very different, consisting of just the female figure and a large glass cabinet. Flor Kent informs: "The piece, comprising a glass cabinet that resembles a giant suitcase, contains real objects belonging to some of the rescued children. The bronze figure is actually a life cast, aged 8 and dressed with contemporary clothes, of the grandchild of one the rescued girls." The Poor Mouth has a photo of the original sculpture.

The Kent sculpture was removed from Hope Square (where, in 2006 Meisler's Kindertransport sculpture was installed) and, in 2011, the Kent sculpture was reconfigured with the 2 children and installed where we photographed it, on the lower level of the station. The IWM partly explains this: "The sulpture was dismantled when it was found that the facilities affecting the environmental conditions of the case were not performing correctly. The artefacts were returned to the Imperial War Museum."