An information board near an entrance to the gardens informs:
"Euterpe the Muse of Instrumental Music. Terracotta figure, one of the nine muses which decorated the façade of the Apollo Inn (1898), on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Torrington Place. On its demolition in 1961, Anthony Heal {who extended his shop onto the site} presented this statue to St Pancras."
The shop which has occupied the site for the last 50-odd years is Heal's furniture shop. Ornamental Passions tells us that the muses were made by Doultons in Lambeth and that Clio, muse of History, ended up in Pevsner's garden, but leaves unanswered the question: where are the other seven?
Ornamental Passions reports that there is another Euterpe by the same artist on Richmond Theatre.
Site: Apollo Inn (1 memorial)
WC1, St George's Gardens
It's a fair assumption that the scalloped edging stones for the flowerbed are also salvage from the Apollo Inn.
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