Catalogue description Statue of General Gordon, Victoria Embankment Gardens

Details of Subseries within WORK 20
Reference: Subseries within WORK 20
Title: Statue of General Gordon, Victoria Embankment Gardens
Description:

Files relating to the construction, maintenance and removal for the statue

Date: 1885-1969
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

The statue, by Hamo Thornycroft, stood in Trafalgar Square from 1888 until 1943, when it was moved to the grounds of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire. It was moved again in 1953, to Victoria Embankment Gardens, Westminster.

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