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On a raised platform to the east side of the memorial, facing Horse Guards Parade, are five large bronze sculptures by Gilbert Ledward, one representing each of the Foot Guards Regiments, standing easy with their rifles above stone carvings showing the badge of each regiment, each slightly larger than life size, about 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m ...
The plinth extends from the balustrade of the former Admiralty Extension building on Horse Guards Parade, a military parade ground off Whitehall, the centre of the British government. To the rear and left of the memorial is the Admiralty Citadel, a bomb-proof command centre built during the Second World War. Relief carvings of the Royal Naval ...
[10] Critic A. A. Gill described the Barracks as the ugliest building in London, and said that Spence "managed to construct vertical bomb damage out of horizontal bomb damage." [11] Semi-panorama north-east towards Hyde Park and the barracks 'I did not want this to be a mimsy-pimsy building', Spence is reported as saying. 'It is for soldiers ...
English: Sir Edwin Lutyens' memorial to the 45,000 members of the Royal Naval Division who died in the First World War, situated on Horseguards Parade, London, next to the former Admiralty Building. Date
The parade ground is open on the west side, where it faces Horse Guards Road and St James's Park. It is enclosed to the north by the Admiralty Citadel and the Admiralty Extension building, to the east by Admiralty House, William Kent's Horse Guards and the rear of Dover House (home of the Scotland Office), and to the south by Kent's Treasury building (now used by the Cabinet Office), garden ...
The Belgian Cenotaph Parade is an annual event which takes place in London, United Kingdom in July. Elements of the Belgian Armed Forces participate in an armed parade from the Cenotaph , through Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade , to the Guards Memorial .
The equestrian statue of the Earl Roberts is an outdoor sculpture of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts by Harry Bates, installed at Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom. [1] The statue was erected to commemorate Frederick Roberts during his service in the 1st World War. [2]
The statue of the Earl Kitchener is an outdoor bronze statue by John Tweed depicting Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, installed in 1926 and located on the south side of Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom. [1] The sculpture stands on a Portland stone plinth. It became a Grade II listed building in 1970.