Statue: Gladstone statue - the Strand
Erection date: 1905
Inscription
{On the front of the plinth:}
Gladstone, 1809 - 1898
On each corner of the monument there is a sculpture of a seated woman (most with one or more children) representing (clockwise from front) Brotherhood, Aspiration, Courage, Education.
Site: Gladstone statue - the Strand (1 memorial)
WC2, Strand
The 1958 film Davy (not very good) has a short sequence towards the end with Harry Secombe and a child sitting on the steps of this monument which at the time was surrounded by road, rather than being part of a larger pavement area as now.
