Duke of Wellington
Bronze equestrian statue from eighteen forty-four, famously crowned with an orange traffic cone.
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This guide to the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square starts with the traffic cone on his head and follows the money around it. You'll meet the thousands of Victorian donors who paid for the bronze in eighteen forty-four, and a city council that sat down in twenty thirteen to work out what the cone was costing. Stand on the Queen Street side, where you can see both the plinth's battle reliefs and the Duke's head.
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