Finding Famous Statues, Graves, Memorials: Jeremy Beadle in Find A Grave Photos, Brunel, Marx, Nelson, Shakespeare, Wilde,

Jeremy Beadle (1948 - 2008) - Find A Grave Photos

I was looking on Find A Grave for the grave of Jeremy Bentham, a founder of University College London, whose waxwork body was displayed in a glass cabinet in the 1960s when I was studying Philosophy as an undergraduate.

By chance I came across the name of Jeremy Beadle, who I remember watching on TV. I loved his comedy programmes including You've Been Framed.

I like his gravestone with the books. As an author and book reader, the idea of books on a grave appeals to me. I then set off on an internet search, which took more than three hours, looking for graves and statues around the world, plus my posts from the past.

What would you want to see in London? Highgate cemetery is best known for its giant sculpture of the head of Karl Marx which looms above visitors on a plinth. Guided tours of the cemetery take you around the graves of famous and infamous people.

Famous Historical Figures Visits
UK

1 CEMETERY & GRAVES
If you want to see the people of the past in London, visit Highgate Cemetery.

2 ART GALLERIES
National Portrait Gallery, and
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, England. Easier to reach than Highgate Cemetery.

Photo of Elizabeth I statue on the wall of Harrow School in NW London. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

3 STATUES, LONDON & UK
Statues of famous people in London.
Polish off seeing several statues in one place at Parliament Square where you can see Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
PM Mrs Thatcher statue stands in the Houses of Parliament.
Oscar Wilde, reclining, is my favourite.
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, probably the highest.
Florence Nightingale stands in front of the hospital.
Shakespeare in Leicester Square, London.
Shakespeare (and other poets) in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, London.
Another of Shakespeare in the London church where he is buried.

Around the London suburbs
Queen Elizabeth I statue on the wall of Harrow school (walk uphill from station Harrow on the hill, Met line).
See my previous posts and pictures of statues easy to find at London stations including

Sherlock Holmes, outside Baker Street Station, near Madam Tussauds to the left and Sherlock Holmes museum to the right.
Brunel's statue at Paddington station. He built the railway, bridges, tunnels and a ship.
Matthew Whitaker at Euston station, the statue of the map-maker and his cat. He mapped Australia.
Robert Stevenson, railway engineer, at Euston station. Not to be confused with
Robert Louis Stevenson, author, statue in Edinburgh.
Queen Victoria. Numerous.

UK
Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, in the garden of Brontë parsonage Museum, Haworth, England.

WALES
Tommy Cooper, comedian, statue, Caerphilly.

4 FAMOUS HOMES NOW MUSEUMS
 Homes of the famous in London include:
Charles Dickens, author;
Jimmy Hendrix, modern musician; next door is a museum to an earlier musician, Handel.
Keats, poet, house in historic hilly Hampstead;
Benjamin Franklin house museum, American politician and inventor of the lightning conductor and bifocals.

Worldwide statues and memorials include:
AUSTRALIA
Captain Cook.
Queen Victoria.

CHINA
Sun Yat-Sen, many museums and statues in China.

CZECH REPUBLIC
Kafka statue in Prague.

EIRE (Ireland)
Lots of statues in Trinity College, Dublin, and Stephen's Green, Dublin.

Brendan Behan, Royal Canal. (Autobiography Borstal Boy.)

James Joyce, St Stephen's Green. (Novelist. Author of Ulysses.)

Oliver Goldsmith (author of She Stoops To Conquer; The Vicar of Wakefield)

Edmund Burke, Trinity College. Quote:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
FRANCE
Pere La Chaise cemetery in Paris has many graves. See my previous posts.
Proust statue, life size will be in the forthcoming museum in Cyborg, in 2019.

GERMANY
Karl Marx statues in Chemnitz, Berlin and Trier (the latter statue donated by China).

ITALY
Moses by Michelangelo in Rome.
David by Michelangelo in Florence.
Puccini statue in Lucca, Tuscany, opera composer in Italy, statue in his house/museum.
St Francis of Assisi. Birthplace and Burial place - tomb in basilica in Assisi; churches, paintings, murals, museums, all over Umbria. (Umbria is next door to Tuscany.)

NETHERLANDS
Anne Frank in Amsterdam in front of Anne Frank House museum.

NEW ZEALAND
Cook station in Victoria Square, Christchurch, New Zealand.

POLAND
Chopin statue, Warsaw.
Arthur Rubinstein playing a piano, Piotrkowska Street (the main street), Lodz, Poland.

RUSSIA
Karl Marx, several statues.
Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, Moscow.

SINGAPORE
Raffles statues and busts, in Raffles hotel and on the waterfront.
Queen Victoria.

SPAIN
Maimoides, Jewish physician who wrote in Arabic in Moorish era, revered by Jews, Muslims, Spaniards and speakers of Arabic, in Cordoba.
Multiple figures in the human tower, Tarragona.

UKRAINE
Babel in Odessa.
Zamenhof who created Esperanto, in Odessa.

UK
N Ireland
C S Lewis, The Searcher (with wardrobe) statue in Belfast.

USA
Charles Dickens statue im Philadelphia.

Lincoln memorial, Washington DC.
Martin Luther King Jnr, Washington DC.

Shakespeare statue in Central Park, New York, USA.

Webster who wrote the dictionary in the USA. Home and museum.

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, four Presidents:George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.


Montgomery - Life-size statue of Hank Williams holding his guitar opposite (Americans say across from) the Municipal Auditorium (now offices) where his funeral was held for 2,750 mourners, with an estimated 20,000 standing outside in the cold.

St Francis of Assisi, cathedral in Santa Fe, new Mexico
(Photo by Chris Light Talk in Wikipedia)

St Francis surrounded by saints, painted in a church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. See his birthplace and burial place in Assisi in Umbria, Italy.

Follow a famous person:
Queen Victoria in London; Singapore; and Australia.
Captain Cook in : The Mall in central London; Greenwich in South London; New Zealand Christchurch; Sydney, Australia.
Karl Marx statues in Berlin and Trier, Germany, and several in Russia.

I am now off to look for Jeremy Bentham and other freethinkers who founded University College.

Websites
AUSTRALIA
http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/discovery/display/23207-captain-james-cook---/photo/2

GERMANY
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g187275-Activities-c47-t26-Germany.html (Marx)

ITALY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi#/media/File:Tomb_of_Saint_Francis_-_Basilica_di_San_Francesco_-_Assisi_2016.jpg
umbriatourism.it

RUSSIA
https://hague6185.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/top-10-statues-of-russia-and-former-ussr/ (Gagarin)

SPAIN
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g187427-Activities-c47-t26-Spain.html (Human tower pic)

UK
ENGLAND
Jeremy Beadle (1948 - 2008) - Find A Grave Photos
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/george-frederic-handel

SCOTLAND
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/robert-louis-stevenson-edinburgh-statue-unveiled

WALES
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g186425-Activities-c47-t26-Wales.html

NORTHERN IRELAND
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g186469-Activities-c47-t26-Northern_Ireland.html (CS Lewis)

USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_tallest_statues_in_the_United_States (Martin Luther King Jnr)

Queen Victoria worldwide: Canada, South Africa and many more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Queen_Victoria
More ideas about statues to see in the next post.

Author
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker. See my other posts such as top ten statues in London.
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London Statues - New Statue of Gandhi in Parliament Square, London - photographing statues worldwide

A new statue of Gandhi is in Parliament Square, London. It is nine feet tall. To photograph yourself next to it, somebody else needs to take the photo from some distance away.

I like to be photographed next to statues when travelling. If you had no other plans for a themed trip to London, you could travel around photographing statues and yourself next to statues. One of my favourites is Oscar Wilde reclining.

I also photograph statues in countries I am visiting. They tell local and national history.

You could also collect photos of statues just in London or worldwide on a theme, such as political figures, royals, religious, philanthropic, WWII, statues and monuments in cemeteries, theatres, hotels and clubs.

Political Figures
In London: Politics: Gandhi and Churchill.
In London: royals, Kings and Queens (including the memorial to Princess Diana, the gates for the Queen Mother).
Victoria & Albert: Worldwide - start in London if you are in London, including the Albert memorial and the Albert Hall in London, statues of Queen Victoria .
Religious leaders: I made a special trip to the museum in East London for Methodist Wesley and took a picture of his statue.
Theatrical: statues of actors outside theatres, often on provincial theatres, worldwide, also opera houses and concert halls show

For a school project or talk to a history society, you could photograph characters from each century, or each decade.

Museums are a good source of statues and busts. Sometimes you need permission to photograph a statue inside a museum, and you need to be there during opening hours. But those outside buildings in the UK are generally OK to photograph and you can visit them any time of day or night. With photoshop and iPhoto nowadays even a photo taken in poor light can be adjusted later.

Silhouette Statues
In late evening, if you cannot get detail, you can aim for a silhouette of the statue against a lighter sky. I once took a day trip on a ferry from England to France, part sponsored by Polaroid cameras. I won a competition for a photo with a contra-jour picture of a statue at the French port silhouetted against the white sky.

Animals
Cats, dogs, horses and animals. My favourites are; in London - Dick Whittington's Cat in Highgate. In the USA - the horse of the Civil War leader. I seem to remember a statue of a donkey or horse in Australia, at a museum about the Great War (WWI). It was either Canberra or Sydney.

Benefactors
Benefactors and campaigners who benefited human rights (Eros for Lord Shaftesbury - interesting story. George Lansbury in London's East End who worked for the seamstresses).

WWI - with the centenaries, lots of opportunities. A project for schools or local or national newspapers or blogs for Armistice Day, and the other celebrations worldwide, Anzac Day, VE Day.
You could collect pictures from the internet, such as Wikipedia, and then gradually visit them on your holidays or business trips overseas.

Long ago I bought a book on statues of London. With Lulu.com and other printers on line, you could make a book of your travel photos, featuring statues of yourself with statues. I try to take the statue alone, and another showing myself next to it. Some publications like to see the author, others prefer the statue without clutter or anything which dates the photo. Adding a person can give a humorous effect. Tall statue with tiny toddler or dog. This might look silly or disrespectful, or could be a winning humorous picture.

I like to photograph inscriptions on all four (or more) sides of a statue or monument. It helps when writing captions later. You can check the spelling of the name or a person or place, and the dates they lived or the battle they fought in. The inscription also often includes a quotation or eulogy (praise).

My favourite London statues:
Oscar Wilde.
Kissing couple on Paddington station upper level.
Brunel on London station.
Australian mapmaker on Euston station.
Florence Nightingale, outside hospital.
Sigmund Freud, near his home in London.
Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery.
Shakespeare bust (in a church).

Churches and cathedrals are a great source of statues. Starting with Poets Corner in London, you could then do a literary trail around Britain.

My favourite memorable statues Worldwide:
1 Einstein, USA.
2 Sassoon, India.
3 Captain Cook, Australia.
4 Raffles in Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
5 Charlie Chaplin, London. (Another in Switzerland.)
6 Sherlock Holmes outside Baker Street Station, London.
7 Queen Victoria - everywhere, the latest I've seen was in Malta's capital, Valletta. Others are in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.
8 Al Jolson, cemetery in the USA.
9 Disraeli in his area near Tring.
10 Monash, WWI leader, in Australia, with the university named after him in Melbourne. I saw an equestrian statue in a main road and a bust in the uni.

My favourite London station statues:
1 Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street
2 Brunel, Paddington Station
3 The mapmaker and cat, Euston
4 The artist, Waterloo

Most photographed in London?
Probably Eros in Piccadilly and Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.

Other world famous monuments include:
The Burghers of Calais, France.
Iwo Jima (same flag raising theme copied in a monument in Malaysia).
Chopin in Warsaw, Poland.
Lincoln in Washington DC.
Four Presidents cut into hillside in the USA.

If you want to add guitarists and guitars, and rock stars and singers, think of Elvis in the USA, John Lennon in Liverpool airport, music museums in the USA and Australasia, and halls of fame all over the USA.

I also look for quotations. My favourites are:
For your tomorrow they gave their today. (Kohima monument in Latin, variously translated on monuments worldwide. You find quotations and local characters and Greek and Roman Gods and mythological characters on all sorts of building, including friezes around the exteriors of art galleries and the exteriors and interiors of shopping malls. St George's shopping mall in Harrow, interior. Lakeside shopping Mall.

Angela Lansbury BA Hons is a travel writer, photographer and speaker.