Harrow Statue In Gleaming Gilt - hygeinic statue on Hygeia house

 When you stand in the bus station in Harrow facing St Ann's Shopping Mall you see a gilded statue on the wall opposite. She is the Greek Goddess Hygeia, also a Roman Goddess. You can see from the sign underneath her in large letters across the top of the square columns that the building is named Hygeia house. From her we get the word hygiene. Health and hygiene.

Gilded statue of Greek Goddess Hygea in Harrow. On College Road, Harrow. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

She appears to be doing her morning exercises whilst waiting for the bus. If you want to see more statues of energetic females in Harrow, look for the skipping Katy.

If you travel to Poland, in Krakow you can see an art deco statue of Hygeia.

Elsewhere on the web, you can see Klimpt's painting of Hygeia.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_the_London_Borough_of_Harrow

Showing Stanmore sculpture

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sculptures_in_the_London_Borough_of_Harrow

About skipping statue called Katie and the underpass under the circle (roundabout)

https://harrowonline.org/2016/10/19/the-story-behind-the-skipping-girl-and-other-public-art-in-harrow/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygieia

High tec toilet wastebins near the National Gallery, Singapore, and distracting grammar

First they need Grammarly. It should read: 'Do not dispose of' .

The word disposed does exist and could be used in the sentence: I was feeling ill-disposed. Not quite what was mean by the writer of this poster, but how I felt after noticing the grammar. I just gave a workshop on Improve your English. I am preparing another for businesses.

Diapers is American. The British would say nappies.

I was so distracted by the grammar, that I read the instructions later.

The bin on the right of the toilet has a sensor. Amazing.

Let's celebrate all the good things in Singapore. 

Singapore flag

Photo by Angela Lansbury.

This toilet was in the Adelphi building on the corner of Coleman street, which you pass from City Hall MRT station, on your way to the National Gallery of Singapore. The lower floors of the Adelphi have shops and eating places. Upstairs, or up the lift (Americans say elevator) are offices.

What does MCST stand for? MC means Management Corporation.

Travel Tips

Art shop in Singapore:  Overjoyed

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2018/11/overjoyed-at-overjoyed-art-supplies-shop.html

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2018/11/overjoyed-art-shop.html

https://www.nationalgallery.sg/visit

$20 for adults from overseas. Concessions. PR (Permanent Residents with NRIC identity card and citizens free.

Urban Sketchers of Singapore on Facebook

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/from-doodles-during-their-commute-to-artworks-at-train-stations-and-bus-interchanges

https://www.facebook.com/usksg/

https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/public-transport/mrt-and-lrt-trains/art-and-architecture/art-in-transit/gallery/dtl.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_MRT_(Singapore)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_World_MRT_station

https://landtransportguru.net/beauty-world-station-art/

visitsingapore.com

Singapore Airlines: singaporeair.com

Author

Travel writer and photographer, Angela Lansbury 

Illustrator and caricaturist name shortened to Angella.

See my posts about artists on the train, artwork displayed at Beauty World MRT, Singapore.

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