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WELLINGTON’S WAIT

May 25, 2014 By Steven Horton

WELLINGTON’S WAIT

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?

October 9, 2013 By Steven Horton

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

October 8, 2013 By Steven Horton

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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