Havelock statue
WC2, Trafalgar Square
This was the first statue ever to be made from a photograph. There is a copy at Mowbray Park, Sunderland.
War dead | Other war
16 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
16 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Captain Scott statue
SW1, Waterloo Place
Sculpted by Kathleen Scott, his widow. There is a replica, in Christchurch, New Zealand, carved in marble, white as the Antarctic.
5 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Captain James Cook statue
SW1, The Mall
The original inscription stopped after "New Zealand." In 1928 the British Empire League, with the necessary approval, added the rest.
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
John Franklin statue
SW1, Waterloo Place
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave companions who sacrificed their lives in completing the discov...
130 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Dias statue
WC2, Trafalgar Square, South African High Commission
Dias rests his right hand on a cross which tops what appears to be a lighthouse. Behind his lower half the niche is carved with some sche...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Thomas More statue - SW3
SW3, Chelsea Embankment
Unveiled by Horace Maybray King, then Speaker of the House of Commons. 2018: Clive Duncan kindly wrote, introduced himself and provided ...
1 subject commemorated,
4 creators
Sidney Herbert - statue
SW1, Waterloo Place
This statue was made in 1866 and erected in front of the War Office, then at Cumberland House, Pall Mall (now replaced with 89, the RAC b...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Florence Nightingale - statue
SW1, Waterloo Place
In 1859 only the Guards Memorial was erected, closer to Pall Mall. In 1914 this was moved back to make room for the two statues in front.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Laurence Olivier statue
SE1, South Bank, National Theatre waterfront
Unveiled by Sir Richard Attenborough, Larry‘s son, Tarquin and widow, Joan Plowright. The list of "principal contributors" has some surpr...
1 subject commemorated,
45 creators
Temple Bar - Anne of Denmark
EC4, Paternoster Square
We found the following at Discovering Dickens "An 18th-century account of it, from Harrison’s New and Universal History, Description and...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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