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Gerry Judah’s Great War Sculptures in St Paul’s

22/09/2025 donbrown 0

The 2014 sculptures commemorating WW1 by the artist Gerry Judah are powerful works that tell a story of continuing war and suffering.

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The Bomb-Scarred Guards Memorial

28/08/2025 donbrown 2

Walk across Horseguards Parade towards St James’s Park and directly in front of you is the Guards Memorial, a portland stone monument with five bronze […]

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The Cenotaph – Lutyens’ ’empty tomb’ on Whitehall

10/07/2025 donbrown 0

The focus for the annual Remembrance Day commemorations each November, Edwin Lutyens’ Cenotaph is the monumental sculptural piece that stands in the centre of Whitehall.  […]

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‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]

30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2

10/07/2024 donbrown 0

Go down into the central atrium of the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, and one of the first things you see is the ‘Nery Gun’. […]

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“Saul has slain his thousands” | The Machine Gun Corps Memorial

08/06/2024 donbrown 0

Saul has slain his thousands, but David his tens of thousands The inscription above, which is on the memorial to the Machine Gun Corps at […]

The Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Victoria Embankment

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: The Anglo-Belgian Memorial WHERE: Victoria Embankment (map) BY WHOM: Victor Rousseau (and Reginald Blomfield) WHEN: 1920 The casus belli for the British Empire’s declaration […]

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Equestrian Statue of Ferdinand Foch, Grosvenor Gardens

15/07/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: Ferdinand Foch WHERE: Lower Grosvenor Gardens (map) BY WHOM: Georges Malissard WHEN: 1930 Within the (slightly grotty) public space of Lower Grosvenor Gardens, facing […]

The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

08/08/2021 donbrown 0

If you should come into the Abbey through the West Door and into the nave, you will walk over the memorial to Sir Winston Churchill, but  everyone, whether […]