Wellington Arch

This guide to Wellington Arch in London opens in eighteen forty-six, when sculptor Matthew Cotes Wyatt's forty-ton bronze statue of the Duke of Wellington went up on the arch to instant public ridicule, and the government ordered it removed. You'll hear how the Duke himself fought back, and what it took to save his own statue from the wreckers. Along the way, the guide follows the arch itself from its original spot at the entrance to Hyde Park to a stint housing one of London's smallest police stations.