This patriotic committee of women, led by Lady Lavinia Spencer, ordered the Achilles statue unadorned. It was the men that insisted on the covering.
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Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington
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Achilles statue
Modelled on the statue of Dioscuri in Rome. A gay friend of ours is fond of ...
Other Subjects
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Thomas Bowman Stephenson
Wesleyan minister and benefactor. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1860. In 1869 he founded the Children's Home (now known as the charity Action for Children) to pro...
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Linton Henry Nightingale
Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Sergeant Linton Henry Nightingale was born on 25 June 1921 in Balham, the third of the eight children of Linton George Prior Nightingale a...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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