10 curious London memorials recapped (and vote for the one that most moves you)…
October 9, 2013
We’re kicking off a new special series next Wednesday but in the meantime we thought we’d recap our latest series – 10 (more) curious London memorials, and the previous series, 10 curious London memorials…
So, first for the 10 (more) curious London memorials list…
10. Memorial to 16th century navigators…
4. ‘People of London’ Memorial…
And, for the first curious London memorials list, which we ran way back in 2011…
9. The Golden Boy of Pye Corner
7. Tower Hill scaffold memorial
6. The Buxton Memorial Fountain
5. Eros (or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain)
1. Watt’s Memorial in Postman’s Park
Hope you’ve enjoyed them. We look forward to bringing you our next series from next Wednesday…
October 9, 2013 at 2:53 pm
I would love to know your thoughts on whether ‘Eros’ / ‘Anteros’ was meant to be pointing his arrow at the Earl’s Dorset estate and he was snubbed when installed… or whether this is one of the many myths surrounding this statue.
October 9, 2013 at 7:47 pm
It can be hard to separate myth from fact on these questions…I’ll have a dig around!
October 9, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Good list, difficult to choose, and often these lists leave out the ones that resonate with you. Two different memorials Ive walked by and stopped and thought about. The first is the striking giant grey green Australian granite semi circular wall in memory of the 102,000 Australian dead of the two World Wars unveiled in 2003 in Hyde Park corner near the Wellington Arch – Striking and poignant. The second, modest one contrasting with the first and one that I’m sure many people walk by in their busy commutes is the memorial to WPC Yvonne fletcher inleafy St James Square.. Yvonne was the PC who was gunned down in 1984 from an unknown gunman in a window of the Libyan Embassy as she was policing a peaceful protest. Also powerful in its modesty.
October 9, 2013 at 7:46 pm
Thanks John, they are both striking memorials…Mentioned the memorial to WPC Fletcher in our recent piece on St James’s Square https://exploringlondon.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/10-historic-london-garden-squares4-st-jamess-square/, and will be looking at the Australian War Memorial in an upcoming series on foreign war memorials in London…Canadian War Memorial and it’s use of maple leaves is also a moving one!
October 9, 2013 at 11:50 am
Actually I wanted to vote for two memorials. The Kindertransport Memorial which I am very interested in personally speaking, and The Suffragette Memorial which should be of passionate interest to women everywhere (and their husbands and sons, if that was possible).
October 9, 2013 at 7:43 pm
By all means, although I think the poll software only allows one…!