Reports say the statue's removal was met with cheers and applause from onlookers. In Dublin, Ireland, Nelson's Pillar was erected in 1808 but was destroyed by republicans in 1966, and in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, England, there is a Grade II* listed bronze statue of Nelson by Richard Westmacott, dating from 1809. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Dressed in Victorian attire and sporting a boater hat, Wilmott enjoyed tea and sandwiches at the top of the column before climbing down. Video, Biden or Trump? The bronze pieces, some weighing as much as 900 pounds (410 kg) are fixed to the column by the means of three large belts of metal lying in grooves in the stone. .css-po6dm6-ItalicText{font-style:italic;}Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. [28][29][30], The Battle of Cape St Vincent by Musgrave Watson and William F. Woodington, the relief on the west face of the plinth, The Battle of the Nile by William F. Woodington, the relief on the north face of the plinth, The Battle of Copenhagen by John Ternouth, the relief on the east face of the plinth, The Death of Nelson at Trafalgar by John Edward Carew, the relief on the south face of the plinth, One of the four lions designed by Edwin Landseer at the base, The Civil engineer and architect's journal, Volume 2, 1839, Hansards Parliamentary Debates, Vol. VideoBiden or Trump?

Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, On the hit list: London's iconic Nelson's Column, People salute by Nelson's Column as they gather for a minute's silence at a Justice for Black Lives protest at Trafalgar Square in London, June 3, The Topple the Racists website wants the memorial taken down in the capital, The statue of slaver Robert Milligan was removed by workmen in East London last night, Government Minister Nadhim Zahawi said there shouldn't be any pictures of slavers in Britain, The monument was removed following a petition, It came after protestors threw the statue of Edward Colston in the harbour in Bristol, A statue of Sir Francis Drake on Plymouth Hoe, There are calls to remove a statue of Oliver Cromwell from Westminster over his 'mass genocide' during the Irish Confederate Wars, although he claimed to only target military enemies, Only Fools and Horses has had to edit some of its old episodes - in one, Del Boy told a child to 'pop down to the P*** shop' but the line is no longer broadcast in repeats, Dad’s Army character Corporal Jones often refers to 'Fuzzy-Wuzzies' when talking about days fighting in the Sudan, but the phrase is a derogatory and offensive term for black people, Carry On Up the Khyber sparked controversy when the actors Kenneth Williams and Bernard Bresslaw 'browned up', Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly said clips of them impersonating BAME people on Saturday Night Takeaway would be removed from the ITV Hub and YouTube videos, Protesters threatening to take down the Cecil Rhodes statue, A statue of Robert Milligan, an 18th century Scottish merchant who owned 526 slaves at his Jamaican sugar plantation, stands outside the Museum of the Docklands near Canary Wharf, Workers can be seen removing the statue from its plinth after a similar one was toppled by protesters in Bristol over the weekend, Milligan is thought to have owned 526 African slaves who were forced to work on a plantation in Jamaica, Protesters in Oxford campaign to pull down the statue of Cecil Rhodes, Former Lord Mayor of London William Beckford, who has a statue inside London's Guildhall, is believed to have owned around 3,000 slaves in plantations in Jamaica, Sir John Cass was a philanthropist and a slaver, who was a member of the Royal African Company's Court of Assistance for three years in the 1700s, A protester tried to set fire to the UK flag in London, Queen Victoria statue in Leeds spray painted with anti-slavery and Black Lives Matter messages, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).

The Royal Navy hero is included in a hit-list of 78 statues on a "topple the racists" website listing memorials across the UK that activists say "celebrate slavery and racism". In February 1838 a group of 121 peers, MPs and other gentry formed a committee to raise a monument to Lord Nelson, funded by public subscription, and the Government agreed to provide a site in Trafalgar Square, in front of the newly completed National Gallery. Edward Colston: 'Why the statue had to fall', Composer with dementia meets students he inspired. Sir Richard Westmacott also designed the elaborate monument to Nelson in Liverpool. Smith.. victory.

Railton submitted a slightly revised design, and was once again declared the winner, with the stipulation that the statue of Nelson should be made by EH Baily. The deadline for submissions was 31 January 1839. Topple the Racists' website is the brainchild of the Stop Trump Coalition which protested against the US president's controversial visit to the UK. Elsewhere in the world, Nelson's Column in Montreal was erected by both Britons and Canadians in 1809, and there is also a Mount Nelson, near Invermere, British Columbia. Persuading an undecided voter. He clarified: "I suspect the commission may come back and say it's not appropriate to be memorialising, to be celebrating these people.

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