London Pride. Frank Dobson CBE, RA. 1886 - 1963. Commissioned for The Festival of Britain 1951. Given by Mary Dobson 1987 and placed on the South Bank. Assisted generously by Lynton Property & Reversionary Plc and The Henry Moore Foundation.
Arts Council of Great Britain.
SE1, Queen's Walk
On the South Bank riverfront, between the Royal National Theatre and the river.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - London Pride
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - London Pride
1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up ...
Sculptor. CBE, RA. Born at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Marylebone Road, Londo...
A nearby information board informs: The Caryatides of Rotherhithe Old Town Hall Designed and constructed {* see our note below} by Henry...
The sign of the magpie was once at this corner and it was from this bird that this corner became known as Pie Corner. The figure is of oa...
Purchased by the Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of Andrew Mellor. April 2001 Sculptor - Patricia Finch
The lamp standard is one of a pair, the other being at Chelsea Old Church see there for some more information. The metal plaque is laid i...
Don’t believe Wikipedia when it says that "the mutilated condition of many of the sculptures has nothing to do with prudish censorship". ...
Environmental group. Founded in the 1970s with the objectives to improve the local environment, protect the green belt, eliminate street clutter and protect wildlife.
This strangely monikered garden was named for Dr William Heath Strange who, in 1882, founded the Hampstead General Hospital that went on ...
Hymn-writer, poet, theologian and logician. Born Southampton. As a non-conformist he could not go to Oxford or Cambridge so went to the Stoke Newington Dissenting Academy and stayed connected to St...
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