Problem
Where's the statue? Heroes and heroines, famous and fictional characters, their statues decorate cities and inform us about history all over the world.
Answers
UK Airports tend to have statues of planes but London's railway stations are good places to see statues of people.
London
Paddington Bear is in Paddington Station, London, England. A fictional character travelling, the little lost bear, lost in large Paddington station, who is easily found, is fun for children.
Also in Paddington see the state of Brunel, wearing a top hat. Why on Paddington? Because he was the pioneer who built the railway going west to Wales, building bridges, literally and the ship to take travellers on to the USA. Brunel University in NW London is named after him.
Nelson, elevated on his column in Trafalgar Square, looks out over the heads of visitors. If you are into history, pop into the nearby National Portrait Gallery.
Oscar Wilde is reclining, near Trafalgar Square. You can stand or sit beside him for a selfie.
Beau Brummel, the dandy, stands near Fortnum and Mason department store. You are surrounded by smart clothes shops, upmarket He looks very dapper, in the West End, where you are amongst food shops and places to eat.
If you like literature, and it is a sunny day and you want to walk, the statue of Peter Pan is in a park where you can have a picnic. James Barrie and his supporters put the little statue in a public place without permission, but when the authorities tried to take it away, popular pressure persuaded them to leave it for the enjoyment of all then and today.
If it's raining, in London, and you have a the time and money for seeing sights, Westminster Abbey features poet's corner.
If you'd rather see people looking more colourful and lifelike, there's Madame Tussauds, next to Baker Street station. Outside Baker Street station stands a statue of Sherlock Holmes wearing his deerstalker hat.
Story of My Sherlock Statue Photo
If you don't have the money or time to queue for ever popular Madame Tussaud's, take a selfie with Sherlock's statue. I nearly lost my impatient family and ended up divorced because I stopped to wait for a group of giggling Japanese girls to finish photographing. After I obtained my essential photo, I popped into the extensive shop in the nearby Sherlock Holmes Museum.
Dozens more:
Euston station has the map maker who mapped Australia, with his cat.
Speaking of cats, two more cats are featured in London. Dick Whittington's cat, companion to a former mayor of London is a popular subject for Dick Whittington pantomimes in London at Christmas time.
Statues of famous people stand in squares or look down from niches all over London and Britain. Kings, queens, busts on buildings, equestrian (horseback) statues, and war memorials, in city squares, beside art galleries, in the middle of busy streets. Soldiers, and nurses. Florence Nightingale.
Literature fans will like Shakespeare. Musicians might opt for Handel. Or Amy Winehouse in Camden.
Which do you prefer, sculpture or painting? Combine both. If you are into art, there's a statue of an artist with his paintbrush and palette on Waterloo station. What's he doing on the station? He was commissioned by the railways to paint their stations and trains. One has to earn a living, something practical, science, travel. Can't be painting and sculpting kings, queens and rich pop stars all the time.
The British Museum has statues from Greeks, Romans, Egyptians. If it's raining, or you want a little light relief, try the nearby cartoon museum which holds events for children, adults and the elderly to learn more about drawing their own cartoons and characters.
VICTORIA AND OTHERS
Queen Victoria is near Buckingham Palace. (You'll see her all over the world, Australia, Singapore.)
See busts of Kennedy, Mandela and many more including a statue of Russian Yuri Gagarin, first man to look down on earth from space.
Years ago I bought a book of statues in London, and since then many more statues have been added.
Churchill and Disraeli are near the Houses of Parliament and PM Mrs Thatcher's statue is inside.
If you are prepared to take a trip out of the centre of the city, Karl Marx has a huge bust in Highgate Cemetery where you can take a tour.
In London you can take bus and walking tours following famous figures or including them, everybody from Shakespeare and Dickens to the Beatles. Houses of famous people in Britain include London homes as museums to Dickens and Keats, more on Dickens around Britain, plus the Brontes up in Yorkshire. You can buy books on literary trails around Britain (and other parts of the world) which usually take you past a statue or two, as shown in the books. Look in libraries and on Amazon.
Going North, Beatrix Potter's statue is in the lovely Lake district.
Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, has a famous dog which supposedly stayed devotedly by its master's grave for years. In recent years, some people have cynically said that the dog only hung around because it was fed daily by the cemetery keeper, and admired by visitors. The more humorous and easy going of us would smile and say, 'Why let the truth get in the way of a good story!'
EUROPE
FRANCE
Taking the train from London to Paris, prepare for more statues. In London's St Paul's cathedral the son of architect Sir Christopher Wren installed a p l a q u e (spaces inserted to foil spell checker) which reads, (I've remembered it in colloquial modern English) 'If you want to see my monument, look around you'. Likewise, in Paris, I cannot recall a statue to Eiffel, but I certainly remember his tower. You can't miss it, as they say.
In Paris the two cemeteries which draw tourists are Père Lachaise and Montmartre. Three notable ladies honoured in France by statues are Joan of Arc, actress Sarah Bernhardt, and singer Dalida.
The person from modern times is Dalida. Her name is adapted from Delilah. You can see her white statue against a black background in Montmartre cemetery. A square is named after her and you can see her statue near her house in Paris.
The sexy singer and dancer had Italian parents, was born in Cairo, and lived in France, and sang in French and Italian, Arabic and Hebrew, Japanese and many other languages. She was able to sing in several languages and address and converse with fans in several languages. She won many awards. You can see her website and watch her on YouTube. Her fiancé shot himself after losing a competition and later she committed suicide.
(And the moral is? Don't get depressed by the jury. Keep dancing and singing because you are loved by your fans. There's always somebody, somewhere, family or friend, fan or stranger, now or later, who wants you to live, as long as possible.) You can take a Dalida walking tour.
RUSSIA
Moscow, named after the Moskva river, has a statue of Peter the Great, who founded the navy. He stands amid the sailing ship, surrounded by water. The water is a suitable setting for a statue featuring a ship and a man who founded the navy.
Water has the added benefit of protecting the statue from crowds obscuring it so you can get a better photograph. A water barrier protects the statue from damage, whether deliberate or the indentations of the hands of admirers.
SUMMARY
UK
LONDON
Bear, Paddington
Beau Brummel
Brunel
Cats: Whittington's cat; cat and mapmaker, Euston.
Charlie Chaplin
Churchill
Eros
Freud
Marx
Napoleon
Spike Milligan, Finchley
Nelson
Paddington Bear
Peter Pan
Shakespeare
Thatcher
Oscar Wilde
Victoria
Wren
ENGLAND
The Beatles, Liverpool
Les Dawson, Lytham St Anne's
Eric Morecambe, Morecambe
Norman Wisdom, Sefton Hotel, Douglas, Isle of Man
WALES
Tommy Cooper, Caerphilly.
SCOTLAND
Dog, Edinburgh.
USA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ISLANDS & REGION
NEW YORK
Charging Bull, Wall Street, New York city, NY state.
George M Cohan, Times Square.
Statue of Liberty
WASHINGTON
President Lincoln
OTHER
Presidents, Mount Rushmore
Christopher Columbus, Puerto Rico
Christ the Redeemer, Rio?
Horse, Virginia.
Will Rogers, Oklahoma, USA
AUSTRIA
General Radetsky, Vienna (Radetsky was the man for whom the march was written.)
BELGIUM
Mannequin Pis, Brussels.
BULGARIA
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in front of the House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo.
Charlie Chaplin statue stand outside in the Park of Humour and inside are two Cat statues.
CHINA
Sun Yat-Sen.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Wenceslas, Prague.
DENMARK
The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen.
FRANCE
Bernhardt
Dalida
Eiffel
Joan of Arc
ITALY
David (biblical)
Puccini
NETHERLANDS
Anne Frank, Amsterdam
POLAND
Chopin, Warsaw
RUSSIA
Nikolai Gogol.
Peter the Great, Moscow
SINGAPORE
Raffles. Bust in Raffles Hotel. Statue on waterfront.
SWITZERLAND
Charlie Chaplin, Vevey.
AUSTRALASIA
Captain Cook.
Dame Edna Everage, Melbourne, Australia.
Sir John Monash, Melbourne (WWI Commander; Monash University of in Australia and other countries.)
Tips
See Wikipedia for lists of statues by country, tallest statues in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equestrian_statues_in_the_United_Kingdom#Scotland
My top trip to see statues and a museum is the museum of humour in Bulgaria.s
http://www.humorhouse.bg/engl/book.html
I have only given you a brief glimpse of the statues to see worldwide, but enough to entertain you with their stories, inspire you to seek them out to see statues and research more.
Author Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have several other posts about statues in London and elsewhere. Please share links to posts.
Where's the statue? Heroes and heroines, famous and fictional characters, their statues decorate cities and inform us about history all over the world.
Answers
UK Airports tend to have statues of planes but London's railway stations are good places to see statues of people.
London
Paddington Bear is in Paddington Station, London, England. A fictional character travelling, the little lost bear, lost in large Paddington station, who is easily found, is fun for children.
Also in Paddington see the state of Brunel, wearing a top hat. Why on Paddington? Because he was the pioneer who built the railway going west to Wales, building bridges, literally and the ship to take travellers on to the USA. Brunel University in NW London is named after him.
Nelson, elevated on his column in Trafalgar Square, looks out over the heads of visitors. If you are into history, pop into the nearby National Portrait Gallery.
Oscar Wilde is reclining, near Trafalgar Square. You can stand or sit beside him for a selfie.
Beau Brummel, the dandy, stands near Fortnum and Mason department store. You are surrounded by smart clothes shops, upmarket He looks very dapper, in the West End, where you are amongst food shops and places to eat.
If you like literature, and it is a sunny day and you want to walk, the statue of Peter Pan is in a park where you can have a picnic. James Barrie and his supporters put the little statue in a public place without permission, but when the authorities tried to take it away, popular pressure persuaded them to leave it for the enjoyment of all then and today.
If it's raining, in London, and you have a the time and money for seeing sights, Westminster Abbey features poet's corner.
If you'd rather see people looking more colourful and lifelike, there's Madame Tussauds, next to Baker Street station. Outside Baker Street station stands a statue of Sherlock Holmes wearing his deerstalker hat.
Story of My Sherlock Statue Photo
If you don't have the money or time to queue for ever popular Madame Tussaud's, take a selfie with Sherlock's statue. I nearly lost my impatient family and ended up divorced because I stopped to wait for a group of giggling Japanese girls to finish photographing. After I obtained my essential photo, I popped into the extensive shop in the nearby Sherlock Holmes Museum.
Dozens more:
Euston station has the map maker who mapped Australia, with his cat.
Speaking of cats, two more cats are featured in London. Dick Whittington's cat, companion to a former mayor of London is a popular subject for Dick Whittington pantomimes in London at Christmas time.
Statues of famous people stand in squares or look down from niches all over London and Britain. Kings, queens, busts on buildings, equestrian (horseback) statues, and war memorials, in city squares, beside art galleries, in the middle of busy streets. Soldiers, and nurses. Florence Nightingale.
Literature fans will like Shakespeare. Musicians might opt for Handel. Or Amy Winehouse in Camden.
Which do you prefer, sculpture or painting? Combine both. If you are into art, there's a statue of an artist with his paintbrush and palette on Waterloo station. What's he doing on the station? He was commissioned by the railways to paint their stations and trains. One has to earn a living, something practical, science, travel. Can't be painting and sculpting kings, queens and rich pop stars all the time.
The British Museum has statues from Greeks, Romans, Egyptians. If it's raining, or you want a little light relief, try the nearby cartoon museum which holds events for children, adults and the elderly to learn more about drawing their own cartoons and characters.
VICTORIA AND OTHERS
Queen Victoria is near Buckingham Palace. (You'll see her all over the world, Australia, Singapore.)
See busts of Kennedy, Mandela and many more including a statue of Russian Yuri Gagarin, first man to look down on earth from space.
Years ago I bought a book of statues in London, and since then many more statues have been added.
Churchill and Disraeli are near the Houses of Parliament and PM Mrs Thatcher's statue is inside.
If you are prepared to take a trip out of the centre of the city, Karl Marx has a huge bust in Highgate Cemetery where you can take a tour.
In London you can take bus and walking tours following famous figures or including them, everybody from Shakespeare and Dickens to the Beatles. Houses of famous people in Britain include London homes as museums to Dickens and Keats, more on Dickens around Britain, plus the Brontes up in Yorkshire. You can buy books on literary trails around Britain (and other parts of the world) which usually take you past a statue or two, as shown in the books. Look in libraries and on Amazon.
Going North, Beatrix Potter's statue is in the lovely Lake district.
Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, has a famous dog which supposedly stayed devotedly by its master's grave for years. In recent years, some people have cynically said that the dog only hung around because it was fed daily by the cemetery keeper, and admired by visitors. The more humorous and easy going of us would smile and say, 'Why let the truth get in the way of a good story!'
FRANCE
Taking the train from London to Paris, prepare for more statues. In London's St Paul's cathedral the son of architect Sir Christopher Wren installed a p l a q u e (spaces inserted to foil spell checker) which reads, (I've remembered it in colloquial modern English) 'If you want to see my monument, look around you'. Likewise, in Paris, I cannot recall a statue to Eiffel, but I certainly remember his tower. You can't miss it, as they say.
In Paris the two cemeteries which draw tourists are Père Lachaise and Montmartre. Three notable ladies honoured in France by statues are Joan of Arc, actress Sarah Bernhardt, and singer Dalida.
The person from modern times is Dalida. Her name is adapted from Delilah. You can see her white statue against a black background in Montmartre cemetery. A square is named after her and you can see her statue near her house in Paris.
The sexy singer and dancer had Italian parents, was born in Cairo, and lived in France, and sang in French and Italian, Arabic and Hebrew, Japanese and many other languages. She was able to sing in several languages and address and converse with fans in several languages. She won many awards. You can see her website and watch her on YouTube. Her fiancé shot himself after losing a competition and later she committed suicide.
(And the moral is? Don't get depressed by the jury. Keep dancing and singing because you are loved by your fans. There's always somebody, somewhere, family or friend, fan or stranger, now or later, who wants you to live, as long as possible.) You can take a Dalida walking tour.
RUSSIA
Moscow, named after the Moskva river, has a statue of Peter the Great, who founded the navy. He stands amid the sailing ship, surrounded by water. The water is a suitable setting for a statue featuring a ship and a man who founded the navy.
Water has the added benefit of protecting the statue from crowds obscuring it so you can get a better photograph. A water barrier protects the statue from damage, whether deliberate or the indentations of the hands of admirers.
SUMMARY
UK
LONDON
Bear, Paddington
Beau Brummel
Brunel
Cats: Whittington's cat; cat and mapmaker, Euston.
Charlie Chaplin
Churchill
Eros
Freud
Marx
Napoleon
Spike Milligan, Finchley
Nelson
Paddington Bear
Peter Pan
Shakespeare
Thatcher
Oscar Wilde
Victoria
Wren
ENGLAND
The Beatles, Liverpool
Les Dawson, Lytham St Anne's
Eric Morecambe, Morecambe
Norman Wisdom, Sefton Hotel, Douglas, Isle of Man
WALES
Tommy Cooper, Caerphilly.
SCOTLAND
Dog, Edinburgh.
USA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ISLANDS & REGION
NEW YORK
Charging Bull, Wall Street, New York city, NY state.
George M Cohan, Times Square.
Statue of Liberty
WASHINGTON
President Lincoln
OTHER
Presidents, Mount Rushmore
Christopher Columbus, Puerto Rico
Christ the Redeemer, Rio?
Horse, Virginia.
Will Rogers, Oklahoma, USA
AUSTRIA
General Radetsky, Vienna (Radetsky was the man for whom the march was written.)
BELGIUM
Mannequin Pis, Brussels.
BULGARIA
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in front of the House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo.
Charlie Chaplin statue stand outside in the Park of Humour and inside are two Cat statues.
CHINA
Sun Yat-Sen.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Wenceslas, Prague.
DENMARK
The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen.
FRANCE
Bernhardt
Dalida
Eiffel
Joan of Arc
ITALY
David (biblical)
Puccini
NETHERLANDS
Anne Frank, Amsterdam
POLAND
Chopin, Warsaw
RUSSIA
Nikolai Gogol.
Peter the Great, Moscow
SINGAPORE
Raffles. Bust in Raffles Hotel. Statue on waterfront.
SWITZERLAND
Charlie Chaplin, Vevey.
AUSTRALASIA
Captain Cook.
Dame Edna Everage, Melbourne, Australia.
Sir John Monash, Melbourne (WWI Commander; Monash University of in Australia and other countries.)
Tips
See Wikipedia for lists of statues by country, tallest statues in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equestrian_statues_in_the_United_Kingdom#Scotland
My top trip to see statues and a museum is the museum of humour in Bulgaria.s
http://www.humorhouse.bg/engl/book.html
I have only given you a brief glimpse of the statues to see worldwide, but enough to entertain you with their stories, inspire you to seek them out to see statues and research more.
Author Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have several other posts about statues in London and elsewhere. Please share links to posts.
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