Monuments & Statues in your city in picture.

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Liverpool

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[Tony Sebo]

Originally Posted by ferge

like his little Freddie Mercury pose too,

more John Travolta?

[Portobello Red]

Liverpool

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mAtt.tRe

[ill tonkso]

A selection of some of Portsmouths offerings. Naturally we have somewhat more than most cities, due to our Military History.

Portsmouth WW1 and 2 Naval Memorial



Portsmouth Falklands Memorial



Portsmouth Trafalgar Memorial



Portsmouth Royal Garrison Church, Blitz Memorial

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Portsmouth Chesapeake Memorial



Portsmouth Crimean Memorial



Portsmouth WW2 Soldiers Memorial



Portsmouth Cenotaph



HMS Centurion Memorial



HMS Victoria and HMS Powerful Memorials



Napier Monument



Captain Scott



William of Orange



Brunel (Finally something not to do with War)

[nordisk celt83]

Originally Posted by Awayo

are there any statues of Victoria and other imperial monarchs still standing in the republic? There must have been scores of them once. Or did they all suffer the fate of old Horatio on the site of that sprong above?

Just saw this now, and have time off work, so I thought I'd reply.

No, there aren't any statues of Victoria or any other monarchs left in Dublin city centre.
Victoria was gifted to Australia in the late 1980's (she's in Sydney now) having been removed in 1948.
Although, her husband managed to just about hold on. There's a small statue of Albert in Merrion Square.
Victoria wanted a larger statue of Albert to be placed in Stephen's Green and for the square to be renamed in his honour, but Dublin City Council had far less deferential ideas. (she wasn't impressed)
Other monarchs/imperial fugures met a more turbulent end than Victoria, with many being blown up by the IRA.

A few pics of lost/removed monuments/statues is in order I guess:




George II in the centre of Stepehen's Green (blown up)








Lord Gough at the Gates of the Phoenix Park, Chesterfield Avenue (blown up)

















William of Orange, College Green (blown up)














Queen Victoria in what was the museum quarter








The statue of Albert, she wasn't impressed with, has been pushed aside from its original place














Nelson's Pillar, O'Connell Street (blown up)

[nordisk celt83]

It's a pity the statues/monuments weren't retained in some form, even if the plinths had just been kept and the figures replaced.


Albert above isn't an exception though. Not all imperial mounuments were removed!
Wellington monument is still about: (largest obelisk in Europe)





(viewed from the liffey)










(viewed from 17th century royal hospital)





















(viewed from gravity bar)

[nordisk celt83]

Totally forgot there's a monument to Victoria's 1900 visit on the same road as my apartment.
There's an obelisk, commemorating her 1853 visit, on a hill down the road from my mum's house, now that I think about it too...
There's ones to mark the visits of George IV and Edward VII as well "I think." I'll have to take a look later!



(Dun Laoghaire, literally a 5min walk from my place)









Boer War Memorial, Stephen's Green

[nordisk celt83]

Few more contemporary monuments and statues from College Green and Parliament Square, smack bang in the centre of Dublin.




(Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith outside the western facade)








(George Salmon)







(Campanile, Parliament Square)

[nordisk celt83]

(Daniel O'Connell seen from a distance)










(Justice and Fortitude flanking the Bedford Tower)













(Oscar Wilde overlokking his family home)

[Sir Miles Platting]

There seems to be a lot of enlarged photos of Dublin statues.

Oh hang on a minute--BLOWN UP--yeh--of course...

[Bachy Soletanche]

Originally Posted by nordisk celt83

(Oscar Wilde overlokking his family home)

And not looking over the nudie laydee!

[Pompey77]

Near enough every monument in Portsmouth is detailed here;
http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/

The WW1 & 2 naval memorial by far the most impressive with the 24,588 names of men and women who were based in Portsmouth and died in naval service.

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[Portobello Red]

Liverpool

Detail of the Titanic Memorial

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oneterry

[cardiff]

Lots of memorials to the Titianic in Southampton, this is the one to the engineers

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[Awayo]

So's the one in Liverpool.

[Portobello Red]

Liverpool - Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic

The Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic is a granite monument located in St. Nicholas Place, Pier Head, Liverpool, England. The city of Liverpool is strongly associated with the ill-fated liner that sank on April 14, 1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with the loss of some 1,517 lives.

The memorial on Liverpool's waterfront is dedicated to the 244 engineers that lost their lives in the disaster as they remained in the bow of the ship supplying the stricken liner with electricity and other amenities for as long as possible.

The RMS Titanic was owned by White Star Line which was founded in Liverpool in 1840. Liverpool was also the port of registry of the liner with the words 'Titanic, Liverpool' visible on the stern of the ship.

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[NorthLimitation]

Flora MacDonald, looking down the Gleann Mor (Great Glen) to the isle of Skye where she helped Prince Charlie escape.

On Christmas morning of this year:

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And spring:

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[belfastuniguy]

Gorgeous.

On Christmas morning of this year:

You mean last year

[NorthLimitation]

Correctamondo

[Portobello Red]

Liverpool

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Manic Milner