by Susan | May 17, 2021 | Monuments
The Messenger of Peace sculpture was the winner of a 1986 competition to celebrate the status of Manchester as the world’s first nuclear free city. This bronze statue, created by sculptor Barbara Pearson, was the winning entry and it showed a woman with doves...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2021 | Monuments
Rose Garrard was commissioned in 1998 to create this sculpture to draw attention to an existing commemorative stone on a war memorial site in Barnard’s Green, which was neglected and regularly vandalized. She researched and developed the designs in consultation with...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2020 | Monuments
In the garden of Southwark Cathedral there is a sculpture commemorating the burial of Mahomet Weyonomon, a chief, or Sachem, of the Mohegan tribe in Connecticut, who had come to London to seek justice for his people. British settlers had taken lands belonging to the...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2020 | Monuments
The American Bar Association (ABA) came to visit Runnymede in the 1950s and was surprised to find no official memorial to the Magna Carta. After discussion with the local authority and the National Trust, the idea of an ABA sponsored memorial was initiated, and Sir...
by Susan | Apr 13, 2020 | Monuments
Installed in 2014, the 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem for peace was created by poet and playwright Lemn Sissay MBE, and is permanently displayed at the University of Huddersfield’s creative arts building. The poem is also displayed at the...
