Shakespeare's Bust For A Selfie, and Benches, Books, And Musical Memorials Of Singers

 

In London you can be photographed standing beside the bust of Shakespeare.

It's outside the Guildhall, which has an art gallery with famous pictures, free to visit. For a fee you can get close up to the Roman remains in the basement which are distantly viewed from the upstairs galleries.

Leicester Square, London, England..Statue on a wooden seat. So you could be photographed sitting beside him, making funny faces.

Black Sabbath Bridge, Birmingham, England. Bench commemorating the band of Ozzy Osbourne. The pictures show Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward. The bridge is over a canal. It crosses from Broad Street in the city centre..

Angela Lansbury sitting beside a statue of Jack Daniels outside a bar in Tirana, capital of Albania. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright.

UKRAINE
From Kiev Fashion Park, Ukraine

Watermelon bench

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Fashion_Park Ukraine

Freud in London, England.

Useful Websites Of Wonderful Busts and Benches Featuring Famous People & Books

https://blacksabbathbench.co.uk/

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Where To See The Whiskey Barrel Tree and Jack Daniels and Music City

In December 2014 i saw the barrel tree on a poster on Oxford Circus underground station in London. Jack Daniels Whiskey build a whiskey barrel tree at their HQ in Tennesse, USA.

The company have been sending barrels to Britain for some time. They used to send their used barrels to Scotland.

But in recent times they have been sending barrels to London, England, for decorative purposes to build a tree which is displayed from November through the Christmas period. The company is also involved in promoting music in the UK. See their website.

If you get to visit the Jack Daniels Distillery in the USA, here's what you might see in Lynchburg and Tennessee.

Statue of Jack Daniels. (Photo from Wikipedia article.)

Jack Daniels in the USA runs tours all year. 

The outdoor tour takes about one hour ten minutes and includes steps so you will need outdoor walking shoes and clothes. 

Another tour includes a tasting, for which a charge is made.

More information from http://www.jackdaniels.com/visit

If, like me, you are armchair travelling today, take a look at whiskey barrel furniture. You can have furniture made from barrels turned into tables, barrel drinks cabinets, and trugs - trays with upright handles, or chairs.

http://www.oakbarrel-furniture.co.uk

Barrels can also be used for gardens, as rain barrels, water features containing miniature lily ponds, containers for three level three size stepped fountains, and full size or half barrel troughs for plants.

A barrel tree was built in Covent Garden last year (2013) using white oak barrels, covered in lights and topped with a seasonal star. 

Angela Lansbury is a travel writer, photographer, author, blogger and speaker.