Erection date: 22/10/1947
George V
1910 - 1936
Unveiled by George VI and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Everyone who was anyone was there.
The national monument to George V was formed of two parts: this statue and 471 playing fields across the UK. See FIT for more details.
SW1, St Margaret Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George V statue
Reigned: 1910 - 1936. Born third in line to the throne, after his father (wh...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
George V statue
Became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated. Like his father George ...
Born Glasgow. Reid was his mother's maiden name. Other work in London: 1936 ...
Architect. Born in Gawcott, Buckinghamshire. Often styled 'Sir Gilbert Scott'...
Ward-Jackson refers to this statue twice as 'Empress Mathilda' and once as 'Empress Maud' which confused us at first but we discovered th...
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...
Locating this statue so close to the British Parliament is controversial given that Gandhi led the successful campaign for India to be fr...
Erected to commemorate the Trafalgar victory over Napoleon of 1805. The height, from top of hat to pavement is said to be 170 feet and 2 ...
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
The inscription seems to have been re-carved, incorrectly, at some point, introducing some ambiguity. The measurements are corroborated b...
This U-shaped 1864 extension is the building to which the above-door inscription refers. The same architects also designed the West Lodge...
English teacher, headmistress, women's rights advocate, magistrate, social worker and humanitarian. Born Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, she graduated with a first in English at Oxford University in 188...
That's all well and good, but was there a maze? All that text and not a word about the maze. Elsewhere we've read that 'maze pond' was ...
PMSA gives "The tragedy had a great impact on the area and the funerals of the victims were attended by massed crowds. A fund was set up ...
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