1836 - W.S. Gilbert - 1911
Playwright & poet. His foe was folly & his weapon wit.
{at the feet of the ladies are:}
Tragedy
Comedy
{on the scroll with the shield beneath - the Latin text translates as "I would rather die than change". :}
Mallem mori quam mutare
{bottom left:}
Geo. Frampton 1914
WC2, Victoria Embankment
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W.S. Gilbert monument
Playwright, lyricist & poet. Born 17 Southampton Street as William Schwen...
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W.S. Gilbert monument
Sculptor. Born at 91 Brook Street, Lambeth. Died at home at 91 Carlton Hill,...
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
Unusually this memorial commemorates two quite separate groups of WW1 dead: patients of the local temporary war hospital, and the parishi...
The main shaft is Portland stone and there is a useful granite seat around the base. At the back there is a basin for the drinking fount...
Unveiled by the Duke of York
Designed as an extension to the WW1 Mercantile Marine memorial to the south. A semi-circular sunken garden contains the names of almost ...
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