SURVIVING THE BLITZ

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 15, 11 February 1942, Page 3

SURVIVING THE BLITZ

LONDON'S MANY STATUES

SOME DAMAGED, MOST GUARDED

London's heroes in bronze and stone have survived the blitz surprisingly well. Richard Coeur de Lion still gazes on the House of Parliament with, only a bent sword to show what he has been through. Field-Marshall Lord Wolseley and his horse were knocked down in the Horse Guards Parade, but suffered little from their adventure and arc now "somewhere in the country." Charles 1., at Charing Cross, tft first boarded up, has been removed to safety, as have George 111 from Cockspur Street, William 111 from St. James' Square, the Burghers of Calais from Victoria Tower Gardens, and Charles II from Chelsea. Queen Elizabeth, over the porch of St. Dunstan's in the West, has been bricked up, as have various other stands amid the ruins of St. Clement Dane's, thought he is now minus an arm. Excavation work in the blitzed Temple has revealed some extraordinary funds. These include about £300 worth of old American "greenbacks" (dollar bills) of the time of the Civil War. Four books and a brief, blown by blast up a chimney, were only discovered when the building was demolished because of deep cracks in its foundations.