The original column, erected 1693-4, was removed in 1773 and acquired by the architect James Paine who kept the pieces at his home in Addlestone. In 1820 Weybridge wanted to erect a memorial to the Duchess of York who had died there. The column was purchased by public subscription and re-erected on the Green in Weybridge. And since then Weybridge have refused to give us our pillar back! So in 1989 the Seven Dials Trust went ahead and erected a new one. The Seven Dials Trust gives more information.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Seven Dials original pillar
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Seven Dials monument
To many people's disappointment, the pillar itself is not the needle (gnomon)...
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Jack Lawrence
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
1 memorial
Grunwick 40
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Grunwick strike.
2 memorials
Salute Mr Magpie
Investigating the magpie plaque at the New Cross V2 bomb site we found the picture source website and we think they may be responsible for that plaque. They erect "guerilla memorials".
1 memorial
Welbore St. Clair Baddeley
Welbore St. Clair Baddeley was born on 30 September 1856 in St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, the sixth of the seven children of Lieutenant Colonel John Fraser Loddington Baddeley, RA, (1825-1862) and...
1 memorial
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