Banksy’s New Statue In Waterloo Place
This was unveiled yesterday, so I had to go and see it today.
I walked down to Waterloo Place from Piccadilly Circus, so it was a rather easy downhill walk.
I then took these pictures.
Note.
- The tall column in Waterloo Place and one of these pictures, is the Duke of York Column, which features a bronze statue of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.
- The guy on the horse is King Edward VII.
- The gilded statue is of Athena on the front of the Athenaeum Club.
- The guys from Conways seem to be on hand with plastic security fencing, so that if anybody falls over they will fall on something a bit soft and the Council won’t get sued.
But two questions must be answered.
- Who does the statue depict?
- Will the City of Westminster, let Banksy’s feral art occupy a place, where a lesser politician or member of the Royal Family could be placed?
I have heard a very creditable rumour, that answers the first!
A Tale Of Two Cities
This article in the Evening Standard is entitled Traffic Will Be Banned From Three Roads Leading To Bank Junction Following Cyclists’s Death.
- Priority will be given to pedestrians and cyclists at Bank Junction in the City of London.
- The works will be completed before the works at Bank station are completed in 2022.
- There may be a street market in front of the Bank of England.
- The taxi drivers don’t like it.
Compare this to the attitude of London’s other city;Westminster, which has recently, gone against the pedestrianisation of part of Oxford Street and the extension of a Cycle Superhighway.
The Anonymous Widower 