Will locals back statue for Margaret Thatcher? Referendum could be held to decide whether to erect monument to the Iron Lady in her home town Former mayor of Grantham Ian Selby proposed a poll to decide on 10ft statue £300,000 plinth in Grantham was funded by Public Memorials Appeal charity South Kesteven District Council has put … Read more
Christians plan new Eternal Wall national prayer monument built with a million bricks that will be same height as Nelson’s Column and dwarf the Angel of the North Building on the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, near Coleshill, will start in 2021 The 169ft tall monument near Birmingham will be built with one million bricks … Read more
The first-ever scale model of Stonehenge that lets researchers explore how the monument would have sounded in its heyday has been created by UK researchers. The model was made using 3D printing and custom modelling techniques, and represents how the monument would have originally looked and sounded. Researchers hope that sound tests with the 157-stone … Read more
Workers discovered a time capsule dating back to 1894 while dismantling what was left of a 75-foot Confederate monument in Raleigh, North Carolina. The massive structure was destroyed during Black Lives Matter protests in late June and officials ordered the removal of the remains due to its ‘painful memory.’ However, the event led experts to … Read more
A hole new ‘Stonehenge’! New prehistoric monument dating back 4,500 years made up of 15ft-deep shafts in a mile-wide circle is discovered in English countryside New prehistoric shafts have been discovered around Durrington Walls henge Coring suggests the features are Neolithic, excavated over 4,500 years ago It is thought the shafts served as a boundary … Read more
Don’t pull down Winston Churchill’s statue: 140,000 Mail on Sunday readers demand the government blocks attempts to remove the wartime PM’s monument More than 140,000 readers have already signed the petition to secure the statue Churchill monument boarded up with metal sheets after being spray painted ** We call on the PM to publicly guarantee … Read more
President Donald Trump hit out at Washington D.C. police late on Friday night, claiming they were ‘doing nothing’ as protesters tore down and burned a statue of a Confederate general. The monument of General Albert Pike was hit by demonstrators as a protest in Raleigh, North Carolina, also targeted statues of soldiers at a Confederate … Read more
A £3.2million monument to honour Britain’s fallen emergency service workers including those who died during the coronavirus pandemic will be opened. More than 7,000 emergency service workers have died in the line of duty over the last 250 years, with more than 180 NHS staff known to have died from Covid-19. The National Emergency Services Memorial … Read more
‘Our unending respect’: Hugh Jackman and his son Oscar lay flowers in front of World War I monument for Memorial Day in NYC By George Stark For Dailymail.com Published: 03:03 BST, 26 May 2020 | Updated: 03:03 BST, 26 May 2020 Hugh Jackman and his son Oscar took time out of their day on Monday … Read more