Should A Statue Of Margaret Thatcher Be Placed On The Fourth Plinth?
‘Thatch statch’ proposed for site of the anti-poll tax riots.
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The Naked Statue Climber Of Whitehall Is Charged
Ukrainian national arrested.
Naked Man On Statue Closes Whitehall
100 metre cordon imposed.
Cavendish Square Gets Statue Made From Soap
The Duke of Cumberland makes an unlikely return.
Christ To Rise On Primrose Hill?
Copy of famous Rio statue could grace the north London viewpoint.
Should There Be A Statue Of Dickens In London?
200 years after the author was born, there is still no public statue of Dickens in the UK.
London To Get Yuri Gagarin Statue
The cosmonaut’s likeness will stand on the Mall.
New Statue Celebrates 300 Years Of St Paul’s
A new equine sculpture by Bruce Denny will stand, nay, rear up, outside St Paul’s cathedral to mark 300 years since the landmark’s official completion. The work shows a stunned St Paul (or ‘Paul’ as he was known at the time) falling from his horse …
Unusual Brunel Statue Planned For Rotherhithe
Plans to erect a 15 metre statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel near the Rotherhithe tunnel have met with disdain from local residents (and probably approval as well, but disdain is much more fun to report). One of the main criticisms is that it looks, frankly, …
Video: New Frieze For St Pancras Kissing Couple Sculpture
New sculpture in St Pancras from Londonist on Vimeo. A bronze frieze dipicting scenes from railway life has been erected around St Pancras’ notorious sculpture of a nuzzling couple. The mammoth statue has become something of a love/hate landmark on the station concourse. Some think …
Bronzed Reagan Coming To London
A statue of actor-president Ronald Reagan will be erected in Grosvenor Square after a neat dodge of planning rules. Westminster Council waived its usual policy, which restricts statuary to those with more than 10 years experience of the grave. Reagan died only five years ago. …
