statues

no pasaran the international brigades memorial in jubilee gardens london

No Pasaran! The Jubilee Gardens Memorial

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

The British and other foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine to resist Putin’s invasion are an echo of 85 years ago, some 35,000 non-Spaniards (2,500 from […]

the statue of clive of india by robert tweed

The Statue of Robert Clive – ‘Clive of India’

10/04/2022 donbrown 0

WHAT: Statue of Robert Clive WHERE: Clive Steps, King Charles Street, Whitehall (map) BY WHOM: Robert Tweed WHEN: 1912

“Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s

07/02/2022 donbrown 0

The church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is one of the jewels of London. A breathtakingly beautiful architectural gem that has occupied its […]

The statue of William IV, Greenwich

14/11/2021 donbrown 0

WHAT: Statue of William IV WHERE: Greenwich Park (map) BY WHOM: Samuel Nixon WHEN: 1844 Poor old William IV. The last of the Hanoverian kings […]

from the westminster abby tomb of thomas thynne

A dastardly murder in Pall Mall

11/09/2021 donbrown 0

If you’ve never been to Westminster Abbey (or it’s ages since you last visited), now is the perfect time to go. The absence of foreign […]

The Eton College Chapel Gargoyle

31/08/2021 donbrown 0

UPDATE: mea culpa – the image that features above this article is not, as I originally thought, that of M R James. My thanks to […]

Who was “The Grand Old Duke of York”?

31/07/2021 donbrown 0

A couple of hundred metres from the much more famous Nelson’s column you will find the slightly more senior Duke of York’s Column (Nelson was […]