Situated at the top of William Brown Street, the memorial to the Duke of Wellington will be 150 years old in 2015. Yet it could have been erected earlier had there not been so many deliberations on design and location, as well as funding and building difficulties. Arthur Wellesley began the Napoleonic Wars as a […]
WHO WAS DICKIE?
The statue above the main entrance to the old Lewis’s department store in Ranelagh Street has been the meeting place for many a courting couple. Affectionately known as “Dickie Lewis’s”, it is also the “statue exceedingly bare” referred to in the song In My Liverpool Home, but what is the real name and origins of […]
LIVERPOOL’S FIRST EQUESTRIAN STATUE
There are four equestrian statues in Liverpool, the oldest of which took quite a while for the plans to come to fruition due to the popularity of the monarch in question. In 1808 a public subscription was announced to raise funds for a statue of King George III to commemorate his 50th anniversary on the […]
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