The Unusual Sculptures and Monuments in the UK Students: Petanova Mariya, Uvarova Alyona, Kutseva Dar’ya Class:7B School:6 Stavropol kr., Essentuki Teacher: Kravchenko Anzhela Vyacheslavovna

The Traffic Light Tree London , the UK The Traffic Light tree was created by French sculptor Pierre Vivant (1952-) following a competition run by the Public Art Commissions Agency. It is situated on a roundabout near Canary Wharf, at the junctions of Heron Quay Bank, Marsh Wall and Westferry Road. in one of London's financial districts. London , the UK

The Peter Pan monument Peter Pan statue, Kensington Gardens, London. The Peter Pan monument is located in Kensington Park, near the Lancaster Gate. This bronze statue was erected one night in secret for May Morning in 1912. It's of Peter Pan standing on a pedestal playing a small wind instrument. Peter Pan is the name of the fictional character that was created by the Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie for a musical that was held in London on December 27, 1904. According to Barrie's story, Peter is depicted as a little boy who refuses to grow-up and lives with a group of children (The Lost Boys) who are the same age as him. The country Neverland, is an island where pirates, as well as, fairies and mermaids live. It's also where Peter Pan has numerous fantastic adventures and lives for all eternity. Peter Pan statue, Kensington Gardens, London.

Italian painter and sculptor Lorenzo Quinn has prepared four-meter sculpture - a huge aluminum child's hand takes the Fiat 500

Newton Sculpture London , the UK Bronze statue by Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), inspired by William Blake's famous image of English mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) using a pair of dividers to plot the immensity of the universe. The British Library houses...More January 01, 2006 London , the UK

«Little Ben» is located in the central part of London «Little Ben» is located in the central part of London. It was built in 1892, removed in 1964 and re-established in 1981

House with the Metal Tail Shark The Shark became the most famous resident of Headington when it landed in the roof of 2 New High Street in the early hours of Saturday 9 August 1986. This ordinary home (built as a semi-detached house in about 1860 but now attached by a link to a second house to the north) suddenly became the centre of world attention, and the headless shark still excites interest today. The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation…. It is saying something about CND, nuclear power, Chernobyl and Nagasaki. The headless sculpture, with the label “Untitled 1986” fixed to the gate to the house, was erected on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Created by the sculptor John Buckley, it is made of fibreglass, weighs four hundredweight, and is 25 feet long. London , the UK

’’Singing Tree’’ The UK

Greyfriars’ Bobby – a shaggy dog story? Edinburgh, Scotland Greyfriars Bobby statue and fountain erected in honour of the Skye Terrier Bobby. He became well known fact that for 14 years guarding the grave of his deceased owner in Edinburgh cemetery Graviers. Bobby belonged to the night crawler by the name of John gray, who worked in the Edinburgh police. They lived inseparable for two years, until 1858, when John died of tuberculosis. Bobby spent the remaining years of his life on his grave, only occasionally looking at a nearby café, where he fed the owner to sit out the cold. The statue of Bobby made a life-size. Before it was installed on a granite stone, the inscription on which reads: "Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all". And so it happened. This history is directly or indirectly based many books and films.

Little Ben London , the UK Little Ben is a cast iron miniature clock tower, situated at the intersection of Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street, in Westminster, central London, close to the approach to Victoria station. In design it mimics the famous clock tower colloquially known as Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, found at the other end of Victoria Street. Little Ben was manufactured, according to Pevsner, by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon, and was erected in 1892; removed from the site in 1964, and restored and re-erected in 1981 by Westminster City Council with sponsorship from Elf Aquitaine Ltd "offered as a gesture of Franco-British friendship". London , the UK

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