From Birkbeck: "The sculpture, which is thought to have been created in the 1950s, is approximately 1.2 metres high not including its plinth. It is carved from Warwickshire Horton Stone...".
WC1, Malet Street, Birkbeck College
July 2020: Preparing for its 200th anniversary in 2023 Birkbeck College launched an appeal for the whereabouts of its lost WW2 memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Birkbeck WW2 memorial
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Birkbeck says that the memorial was created "... to commemorate the lives of ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Birkbeck WW2 memorial
From Birkbeck : "Sculptor, Ralph Beyer, who died in 2008 aged 86, fled from ...
16 bronze standards, each decorated with texts and motifs of New Zealand, such as a fern leaf, a manaia figure, a farmer, Anzac poppies, ...
in 2013 this statue was discovered by maintenance workers in the grounds of what was at the time, the Oasis Academy Hadley in Bell Lane. ...
A second 1849 cast-iron heraldic dragon rears up on the other side of the busy road. The Pity of London has a short video showing the ins...
Ayton also designed the unusual bronze plinth for this location, a garden atop a car-park. Note how the tiled ground rises towards the t...
Difficult to photograph this young lady without making it look as if she's shyly fingering her right nipple, which she's not.
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
A bit of a puzzle, this one, but bear with us. We started with the dictionary: ‘Lustrum’ = a ceremonial purification of the entire ancien...
We think this visage probably represents an ancient sage, probably Greek or Roman: Socrates, Homer, etc., but which one?
