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Four different artists designed each of the panel depictions: Musgrave Watson, William F. The report called for a ban to be enforced, in order to protect the structures, although English Heritage opposed this course of action.
He is just one of many people — including journalists, stuntmen and political protesters — to have scaled the monument. These include:. Check In. Check Out. Adults 1 2 3 4. LOG IN. Log into your account. Then-prime minister Robert Peel stated, quite reasonably, that it would be "extremely inconvenient should the monument fall in that crowded part of the metropolis". In , it was discovered that the statue was, at feet , about 16 feet smaller than everyone had always thought.
The 14 stone masons responsible for hoisting the statue onto the top of the column in the s made sure to have a dinner party up there before they did so.
Since then, climbing the Column has become the preserve of countless stuntpeople and political activists. An anti-apartheid campaigner in the s was believed to be the first. Notoriously so. In fact, French sightseers in the early days were said to be delighted that the statue depicted Napoleon.
Up close, you learn that the stone Horatio has — just as the real Nelson did late in life — just one arm and one eye. Amid fears the remaining arm would be lost after a lightning strike in , brass straps were affixed and stayed there for a century.
Funny you should ask. The Nazis apparently loved how this big, powerful monument symbolised imperial conquest. The German air force was ordered not to bomb it in the hope of moving it to Berlin if they won the second world war. These appeared a quarter-century after the Column, in The sculptor Edwin Landseer used some artistic license, after his model — a dead lion courtesy of London Zoo — rotted. His lions have been ridiculed: their backs bend the wrong way and some think their manes look more like waterfalls.
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