{On the main plinth:}
Street Orderly Boy presented to St Marylebone by Alderman David Isaacs, 1943
{On the lower plinth:}
Donato Barcaglia of Milan
Marble. "Street Orderly Boy" is an old name for a street cleaner - see Cat's Meat Shop for the job specification. This statue was placed here in 1943.
W1, Paddington Street Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Street Orderly Boy
Alderman in St Marylebone. Ran a business as estate agent and surveyor in St...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Street Orderly Boy
While still Prince of Wales, Edward VII saw a plaster version of this sculpture and initiated the idea of a bronze version being erected ...
On the South Bank riverfront, between the Royal National Theatre and the river.
The sign of the magpie was once at this corner and it was from this bird that this corner became known as Pie Corner. The figure is of oa...
These five, verbose, repetitive, inconsistent, self-regarding, plaques are laid into the ground on the south side of the sculpture - you ...
Seeing as how this face has only one eye, and it's closed, the quotation seems particularly ill-chosen.
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