Erection date: 23/10/1953
{Inscribed on stone plinth:}
Livingstone
In Kensington Gore façade, on right of picture. The unveiling ceremony is detailed here (thanks to Jamie Davis for the link).
SW7, Kensington Gore, Royal Geographic Society
Ornamental Passions's post had good photos of the statues. Apparently cabbies call this "hot and cold corner" (think about it). The room behind is the lecture hall.
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Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasg...
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Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the ...
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The site is the former Duke of York’s barracks. It was vacated by the Territorial Army in 2003 and redeveloped to include a public square...
Nothing like a gilded statue on a cloudless day. The statue is of brass and was originally gilded in bronze. In 2002 it was re-gilded to ...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling, where we note that the statue is veiled by a ...
This building is commonly known as the Royal Academy (of Arts). The wings of the building are occupied by a number of learned societies, ...
From Custom House, a stevedore at Royal Docks for 20 years, shown in the sculpture as the tally clerk.
From the Greenwich Society website we learn that this garden was created by the Society out of a bomb site. The Victorian-style marble m...
Town located on the Itz River in Germany. First mentioned in a document in 1056. From 1699 to 1826, it was one of the two capitals of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and from 1826 to 1918 it wa...
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