statues

two of the four bronze lions by edwin landseer in trafalgar square

Landseer’s Lions in Trafalgar Square

09/12/2025 donbrown 0

Just as everyone ignores the warning on packets of cotton buds not to stick them in your ear, so the signs forbidding climbing on the […]

warehouse number one, the home of the london Museum Docklands

The missing statue of Robert Milligan

03/10/2025 donbrown 0

To the London Museum in Docklands for a bit of research on the history of the docks for my forthcoming online talk. The museum’s building […]

The Queen Empress with the Dodgy Nose

01/08/2025 donbrown 0

It’s another of those places that is packed with tourists (particularly when there is a Changing of the Guard), but which Londoners would avoid as […]

The Egregious Error of the Tower Hill Sundial

26/05/2025 donbrown 0

All about the huge architectural sundial on Tower Hill, and the big mistake it makes about London’s history.

Piccadilly Sculptures – old(ish) and new(ish)

16/01/2025 donbrown 0

It’s often said that if you spend your time just looking at street level then you miss a huge amount of the art and history […]

Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain

08/12/2024 donbrown 0

Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […]

Palely loitering in Moorgate: the new John Keats memorial

05/12/2024 donbrown 0

Let’s face it, John Keats pretty much set the template for what we expect from Romantic poets – curly hair, brown eyes, a couple of […]

Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

19/11/2024 donbrown 0

Have you heard of the family Stein? There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein Gert’s poetry’s bunk Ep’s statues are junk And no one […]

The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch

24/10/2024 donbrown 1

As well as Marble Arch to the north, Park Lane has at its opposite end what is now called the Wellington Arch. This is just […]

The Mysterious Panyer Boy of St Paul’s

17/09/2024 donbrown 0

When yu have sought the Citty Round, Yet still this is the highest Ground. August the 27 1688 Step out of the tube at St Paul’s […]

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Landseer’s Lions in Trafalgar Square

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The missing statue of Robert Milligan

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The Queen Empress with the Dodgy Nose

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The Egregious Error of the Tower Hill Sundial

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Piccadilly Sculptures – old(ish) and new(ish)

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Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain

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Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

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