The statue of William IV, Greenwich
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 […]
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The Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square
WHAT: Statue of Sir Winston Churchill WHERE: Parliament Square (map) BY WHOM: Ivor Roberts-Jones WHEN: 1973
A dastardly murder in Pall Mall
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 […]
Boudicca, destroyer of London
WHAT: Boudicca / Boadicea and her Daughters WHERE: Westminster Embankment (map) BY WHOM: Thomas Thorneycroft WHEN: 1902
The Eton College Chapel Gargoyle
UPDATE: mea culpa – the image that features above this article is not, as I originally thought, that of M R James. My thanks to […]
Statues: the Edith Cavell Memorial
WHAT: Edith Cavell Memorial: WHERE: St Martin’s Place (map) BY WHOM: Sir George Frampton WHEN: 1920
Who was “The Grand Old Duke of York”?
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 […]
The Firefighters Memorial, St Paul’s
75 years ago George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote, “as I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me”. He […]
Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner
Today I was going to go round Banqueting House, the last properly surviving bit of the old Palace of Whitehall, but when I got there […]