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[dubdobdee]

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[jauntyalan]

Obv a statue theme?

We knew who x was, but not the where. And it appears he's been moved around a lot in the last few years. And moved out of Station Road last May

[jauntyalan]

I didn't say about x, though is peasy to google i see.

Jackie Milburn (famed in Newcastle), has a statue in St James Park, but also according to this Chronicle article
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ashingtons-jackie-milburn-statue-been-12583019

had another "adored" statue in his home town Ashington's, and it was moved from Station Road around to the leisure centre in 2016 (not May 2017, soz)

[jauntyalan]

III is easy to google and is quite the story I'd not heard before

[jauntyalan]

III is the statue of Earl Grey on Grey's monument in Newcastle

Struck by lightning. The head fell off and hit a tram (I think it was). Nobody injured, but blimey imagine the scene.

Statue remained headless for many years

[dubdobdee]

“the junction of streams by the hill” = the celtic or saxon original of some well known city iirc

watford? clapham? anyway [xxx] where [xxx] junction is a railway station imo

[jeff_worrell]

Hotspur = Sir Henry Percy, of Henry IV fame. I don't think the theme is statues.

[dubdobdee]

there's a modern statue to hotspur in alnwick apparently -- but more significantly "Hotspur Tower, a medieval gate, is extant, dividing Bondgate Within from Bondgate Without" (via google and wikipedia)

[dubdobdee]

ii: "[John Graham] Lough's public works include a statue of Lord Collingwood in Tynemouth"

("On the death of Nelson, Collingwood assumed the command-in-chief, transferring his flag to the frigate Euryalus")

Lough's most famous statues are the lions round the base of nelson's column (via google and wikipedia)