Two curious English mementoes of a past generation. Left, an obelisk which has stood for more than a hundred years in Ludgate Circus, London, in memory of Robert Waiteman, Lord Mayor of London, It is being removed for traffic reasons, and will be re-erected in his native village, Bersham, Wales. Right, a spire built on the ground. It was erected in a field at Dallington, Sussex, by a local landowner in the eighteenth century to win, a bet that Dallington spire could be seen from his home.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 8
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87Two curious English mementoes of a past generation. Left, an obelisk which has stood for more than a hundred years in Ludgate Circus, London, in memory of Robert Waiteman, Lord Mayor of London, It is being removed for traffic reasons, and will be re-erected in his native village, Bersham, Wales. Right, a spire built on the ground. It was erected in a field at Dallington, Sussex, by a local landowner in the eighteenth century to win, a bet that Dallington spire could be seen from his home. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 8
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