Erection date: 21/10/1955
{On the plinth:}
George VI
{On the base of the statue:}
W. McMillan 1954
De Soissons designed the monument.
SW1, Carlton Gardens
From this perch he can look down on his wife's statue. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George VI statue
Became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated. Like his father George ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
George VI statue
Born Aberdeen, Scotland. During the WW1 he was awarded the British and Victor...
The English text is preceded with a piece of text in a script we don't recognise and certainly can't type.
Our image (1835 by George Sidney Shepherd) comes from View from the Mirror where you can find an introduction to the history of the King'...
This badly deteriorated statue could be anyone. We have found a reference to it as a statue of a barbarian. It was dug up by British troo...
Our photo shows the statue shortly after unveiling, with only a temporary notice. By February 2017 this had been replaced with a plaque. ...
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
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