Erection date: /7/1985
{Top plaque:}
Jete (1975) by Enzo Plazzotta, unveiled by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gowrie, Minister for the Arts, in July 1985.
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Sculpture based on the dancer David Wall and cast by the Morris Singer Foundry Limited.
SW1, Millbank, 48
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dancer statue
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dancer statue
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, PC, FRSL, was b...
Sculptor. Born at Mestre, near Venice. Worked in London for more than half hi...
Founded by John Webb Singer as the Frome Art Metal Works. Cast many of the be...
Don't know about you but we find this type of inscription very tedious, and suspect a committee, probably more than one, has had a hand i...
The stance of the horse has been criticised since the position of the hind legs suggest urination. Probably not what was intended. We th...
He reminds us of the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz. Right?
The statue was sculpted by Graham Ibbeson.
Ornamental Passions has some more photos and information on these sculptures, and there we learn that this building is the 1870 Guildhall...
Barrie and his wife Mary Ansell lived at Gloucester Road, 1895 - 1904, when they moved here, where they stayed until their divorce in 190...
Round Table The neighbourhood of St. Martins Lane was, in the middle of the Eighteenth century, the resort of 'horsy and fighting men'. ...
Peter Dobson Allen was born on 4 January 1931, the son of Fred Allen (1902-1957) and Ethel Allen née Dobson (1903-1990). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1931 in the Dewsbury registra...
The damage on this plaque is the result of WW2 bombs.
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