Thomas Paine obelisk
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Erected on the 200th anniversary of the publication of Paine's "Rights of Man", written while Paine lived at the Angel Inn which used to stand on t...
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Cleopatra's needle
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Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, the bronze sphinxes at the base, about which our colleague, Alan Patient...
2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Robert Waithman - obelisk
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Originally erected near Waithman's shop in Fleet Street at its junction with Farringdon Street, this obelisk was moved in 1951 to Bartholomew Close...
1 subject commemorated
Mayoralty of the City of London - 800 years
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The plaque to the Mayoralty is attached low down on the base of the obelisk.
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Dance's obelisk
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The design of the obelisk is based on one designed by George Dance the Younger which was placed originally in the centre of St George's Circus in S...
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
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