London 2 - 4

Even the protection of the historical

is in style.

The Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial

 is a memorial to Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel,

 two of the foremost British suffragettes.

 It's at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens. 

It's made by Arthur George Walker, unveiled in 1930. 

In 1958 the statue was relocated to its current site.

It was special to sit there
a bit aside from the shouting for or against Brexit.
It created a feeling
that people should make better choices
what to fight for.

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And then the rain started,

sweeping clean the pavements of protesters.

It was funny to see

how fast they disappeared,

those good weather shouters!

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Sir John Betjeman

made by sculptor Martin Jennings.

Unveiled 12 November 2007 

by Lycett Green, Betjeman's daughter, 

and the poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

The statue is standing on a disc of Cumbrian slate 

inscribed with Betjeman's name and dates

 and words from the poem Cornish Cliffs:

(Inner circle:)

JOHN BETJEMAN 1906-1984 POET

Who saved this glorious station

(Outer circle):

And the shadowless unclouded glare

Deep blue above us fades to whiteness where

A misty sea-line meets the wash of air

Surrounding the statue and base

 is a series of satellite discs 

of various sizes set into the floor 

with quotations from Betjeman's poetry.

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The Meeting Place is a 9-metre-high (30 ft), 

20-tonne (20-long-ton) bronze sculpture

at St Pancras railway station. 

Designed by the British artist Paul Day and unveiled in 2007. 

It represents the meeting of a chic French woman 

reunited with her English lover

 and aims to symbolise the meeting of two cultures

and the romance of travel.

The sculptor added a frieze to the plinth in 2008 

and says this is a deliberate contrast

 to the "ideal" of the towering lovers embracing above. 

"It is about daily life -- 

about the hopes and fears, 

the loves, the joys, 

the loss and tragedy 

that are bubbling along together in human life".

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