Statue

F. D. Roosevelt statue - small

This little statue greets you as you enter the cafe, the building on the left of our photo. If it looks familiar you have seen its much larger twin in Grosvenor Square. The helpful woman behind the counter told us that no one knows how this statue came here. We didn't have our tape measure but reckon it's about 3 feet tall. There is another copy in Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow.

Site: Magna Carta & U. H. Broughton & F. D. Roosevelt - north (3 memorials)

SL4, Windsor Road, Fairhaven Memorial Lodges

This is a multi-part monument: with four elements, spread over two sites, This northern one and the southern one.  At each site there are two piers with inscribed texts front and back.  The texts consist of two paragraphs (one about Magna Carta and one about the donation) which alternate front and back in each pier pair.  

As part of this memorial Lutyens also designed a bridge to take the A30 across the Thames, near the southern site.  When the M25 arrived in the 1980s the Lutyens bridge was kept to carry the north-bound traffic, and a new bridge built to the south for the rest.  The southern part of the memorial must have originally been much closer to the bridge since the arrival of the M25 meant it had to be moved to its current site.   We cannot discover the exact original location but guess it might have been where the roundabout now is.

The whole monument was designed by Lutyens and opened by Edward VIII (while still Prince of Wales).

The lodge on the left of our photo, the west, houses a good cafe.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
F. D. Roosevelt statue - small

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

32nd President of USA. Married a distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt. Led the S...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
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Sir William Reid Dick

Born Glasgow. Reid was his mother's maiden name.  Other work in London: 1936 ...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
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Magna Carta pier - north

Magna Carta pier - north

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U. H. Broughton pier - north

U. H. Broughton pier - north

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