by Susan | Jul 27, 2026 | Monuments
The Joseph Lister Memorial by the sculptor Thomas Brock is in Portland Place in Marylebone. The memorial is positioned in the center of the road, opposite close to Lister’s home at 12 Park Crescent. The memorial was unveiled by Sir John Bland-Sutton, President...
by Susan | Jun 29, 2026 | Monuments
Designed by the artist Steven Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom Power (now Siemens), and completed in 2002, the Empowerment spans the River Witham in Lincoln’s City Square. It takes the form of two aluminum-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the...
by Susan | Jan 5, 2026 | Monuments
Located in Postman’s Park, just north of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the memorial contains 54 plaques, each dedicated to an ‘ordinary’ person who gave their life in an attempt to save someone else. Artist George Frederic Watts devised the memorial in 1887, originally...
by Susan | Dec 1, 2025 | Monuments, Uncategorized
Twelve Responses to Tragedy, or the Yalta Memorial, is located in the Yalta Memorial Garden on Cromwell Road adjacent to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. It commemorates people displaced as a result of the Yalta...
by Susan | Nov 10, 2025 | Monuments, Uncategorized
On the 14th of August 1848 a band of Chartists, armed with guns , pistols, swords and pikes marched through Hyde at midnight, determined to effect a stoppage of the mills for a month by drawing the plugs from the boilers, thus bringing the machinery of the owners to a...
