Nelson’s Column  

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Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square,
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Nelson’s Column stands at the centre of London’s Trafalgar Square – laid out between 1829 and 1841 to commemorate Lord Nelson’s victory against the French. Its height is 185-feet from tip to toe, and is topped by a statue 17-feet tall – slightly taller than three Lord Nelsons.

Around the base lie four proud lions, sculpted in bronze by Sir Edwin Landseer in the 1860s. The friezes depict Nelson’s various naval battles – cast from the bronze of a captured French cannon.

The four battles represented are Cape St. Vincent (1797), Copenhagen (1801), Trafalgar (1805) and the Battle of the Nile (1798).

You can also visit architect William Railton’s 1:22 scale model at the National Maritime Museum.

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  • Drummerboy – “It’s not a bad column, I suppose. It’s very tall, that is for sure, which is what you want in the middle of a square. And it’s got someone worth a column on top – Horatio Nelson. It’s very hard to build something that like these days, because we don’t produce anyone worthy of putting on top of it. Churchill could have pulled it off. But even he would have looked a bit wierd with his bowler hat on and cigar puffing out his mouth. He is a statue man, not a column one. So who else could we put up there? Marlbrough and Wellington. No one from the last 200 years. We just don’t produce people like Nelson anymore… continued.”
 
 
  
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