Wellington Column
Fluted Doric column crowned by a bronze Duke, with Waterloo reliefs and old length standards at its base.
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This guide to the Wellington Column on William Brown Street in Liverpool follows the two Edinburgh brothers behind it, an architect and a sculptor, and the pair of competitions that put a monument to the victor of Waterloo into their hands. It touches the slow subscriptions of the eighteen fifties, a column borrowed from Edinburgh and Rome, and a city that opened its memorial before it was finished. Best heard standing at the foot of the granite steps, where you can walk round the pedestal.
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