Repost from Courtauld Digital Media: Epstein’s Strand Statues

By Strandlines Editors | 17 February 2020 |
The statues in situ on the Strand before 1937 (CON_B07186_F003_009)

Editors’ note: The Strandlines editors are always scouring for news and research about the Strand area. Below we’re delighted to be sharing an extract from ‘The Strand Statues’, a piece by Leonora Monson, a Courtauld Connects Digitisation Placement student. Thank you to the Courtauld Digitisation team for allowing us to share. The Courtauld Connects Digitisation…

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The Eleanor (Charing) Cross

By Paul G. | 18 November 2019 |

The story of the Eleanor Cross begins with the death of Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, on 28th of November 1290. A series of twelve crosses marked the resting places of the funerary cortège which began in Nottingham, where Eleanor died, and made stops at towns between Lincoln and Westminster Abbey. Charing Cross…

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