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vox-anglosphere · 1 year

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The Lion in Winter - Trafalgar Square, London

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honey-bri-books · 8 months

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saltwaterandstars · 3 months

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The view from the National Gallery, London, across Trafalgar Square, past Nelson's Column towards a distant Big Ben.

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rabbitcruiser · 4 months

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Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson received a state funeral and was interred in St Paul’s Cathedral on January 9, 1806.

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clove-pinks · 1 year

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Winter in Trafalgar Square, by The Nelson Society UK.

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markrothen · 2 years

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Trafalgar Square

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 1 year

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Cyndi Lauper with one of the Lanseer Lion Statues surrounding Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London sometime in the 1980s.

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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“Attempt By Mob To Make Raid On Royal Palace,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 31, 1932. Page 1. ---- Police Able to Hold Off Thousands of Unemployed in London ---- AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE ---- Dozen Injured as Orators Address Crowd From Base Nelson Column ---- LONDON, Oct 31— Mounted and foot police held off thousands of unemployed and “hunger marchers" from the King’s Palace and from official residences on Downing Street yesterday after a disturbance at Trafalgar Square.

Booed by unemployed and sympathisers, the police were forced to retreat at least once as the mob attempted to swarm streets leading to Buckingham Palace and Westminster. They were finally forced back into Trafalgar Square, where communistic and unemployed leaders were condemning the Government.

Today's casualty list hardly exceeded ten or twelve persons injured, although ambulances were kept busy for a while, as compared with the sixty or seventy Injured when “hunger marchers" from all parts of the country gathered on Thursday in Hyde Park.

The unemployed will attempt to present a petition before the House of Commons.

Thousand gathered for the mass meeting in Trafalgar Square, stormed entrances to the Mall (leading to Buckingham Palace at its west end) and Whitehall, which street is flanked by Government offices.

Led by a dark, bareheaded man screaming “Smash the Palace windows!" the crowd attempted first to rush Admiralty Arch, which commands the Mall, but failed when the massive iron gates were closed against them. They were pushed back by a police rush.

Whitehall Protected A crowd of many thousands then poured into Whitehall but were met by a stonewall of “bobbies” at the Honrse Guards' Parade (an open space off Whitehall, well known as the scene of the daily guard relief ceremony.) They were driven back.

Fighting broke out just as speech-making from the pedestal of massive Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square had ended. The crowd commandeered a taxi in an attempt to force through police lines. With a mighty surge, a company of bluecoats was driven back but only for a moment. Most of the crowd scurried to safety and the street was cleared within a few minutes, when the "bobbies" charged.

Then rioters closed in again on the isolated police squads of about thirty, who drew batons, appearing engaged in an even fight. Mounted police charged out from under Admiralty Arch and broke up the disturbance. At another place, a policeman was pulled from his horse, which kicked him while he was on the ground and he was removed to an ambulance.

Stones Are Thrown Some atones and sticks were thrown and windows at the head of Northumberland Avenue (a wide thoroughfare descending to the Thames Embankment) were broken. Iron grills in front of the Hotel Victoria were closed and a crowd stood Jjeering and booing liveried servants behind them.

A large automobile, carrying on elderly man and woman, forced its way to the hotel entrance and a mob turned on it, threatening the occupants, who were then escorted by a detail of police, who broke through the mob.

It was not until well after dark that the normal appearance was restored to Trafalgar Square vicinity and traffic was able to make way. By that time the unemployed, escorted by mounted police, had drawn off to the music of fifes and pipes.

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acs-streetsoflondon · 2 years

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viviseconds · 1 month

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Steven Shearer Lion, 2015 Varied edition 2/2 Ink and acrylic on poly canvas 93 x 83 7/8 inches

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paulpingminho · 3 months

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vox-anglosphere · 8 months

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Trafalgar Square's fountain hums with life in the summer of 1953

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derkabobhall · 5 months

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Sights. Southbank. (London 2023)

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redgriffinsphotos · 6 months

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In and around the City of Westminster, Summer 2018

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson received a state funeral and was interred in St Paul’s Cathedral on January 9, 1806.

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clove-pinks · 2 years

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Since today is Trafalgar Day, and also beloved popular weekly event Eighteen-Forties Friday, what better time to celebrate Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, which was constructed between 1840 and 1843?

Nelson's monumental statue was displayed for the public in 1843 at ground level before its installation at the top of the column.

The Illustrated London News, November 4, 1843 (Google Books):

The statue of Nelson—the hero of Trafalgar—having been completed, has been for a short space made visible to the public from a nearer point of view than many of them are destined to have of it in future. It has been exhibited on the surface of terra firma, previous to its elevation to the summit of the column, henceforth Nelson's Column, in Trafalgar square—a locality which, were it not for the common-place character of the front of the National Gallery, would become the finest open space in the metropolis.

From the perspective of over 200 years past the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson's uniform looks dashing and heroic, the stuff of period dramas set in the Age of Sail. But to the Illustrated London News writer, it was all too recent, even in the 1840s:

Those who have seen his "Nelson"—colossal in size—the features true to nature—a portrait in stone, not an idealism of a hero—the costume, that of an English Admiral, "in his habit as he lived," and partaking of the every-day character, which is the great difficulty of all artists, when they have to deal with the costume of the nineteenth century in any shape—a costume which no skill can elevate to dignity, or transform to the graceful — will have received, probably, a mingled impression.

The irony is that this 1840s journalist thinks Nelson's naval uniform is too modern for the heroic treatment, when Nelson was not fashion-forward in his own time period and had an 18th century style in the eyes of his contemporaries. The future William IV, then Prince William, is quoted with his opinions on Nelson's old-fashioned appearance in Amy Miller's book Dressed to Kill:

He appeared to be the merest boy of a captain I ever beheld, and his dress was worthy of notice. He had on a full laced uniform; his lank unpowdered hair was tied in a stiff Hessian tail of extraordinary length; the old-fashioned flaps of his waistcoat added to the general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my attention, for I had never seen anything like it before, neither could I imagine who it was or what he came about.

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