Showing posts with label Pimlico Gardens. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 08, 2014

William Huskisson

London The Unfinished City
The World's first person to be killed by a railway locomotive.
Saturday March 8, 2014.

It was during a walk from Battersea to Westminster that I spotted this statue of a man dressed in a toga. The dates on the statue, however, didn't explain why this figure should be dressed in Roman garb, so I decided to do some research. I can still not work out why he is depicted in this way.