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Photograph of Queen Victoria monument
One of the the things I miss about England is the architecture, the monuments, the history. This statue was one of my favourites in Newcastle (near the Vampire Rabbit at the Cathedral Buildings). Here is a link to a fabulous photo, but what most of the links don't tell you is that the monument sits atop a Plague pit in "which over three hundred bodies lie". Why the historical aspect was not taken into consideration when they decided to plonk this monument over it is a mystery, but oh well! There is a strange dichotomy of feelings when looking at this Victorian monument and all the historic meanings behind it, yet knowing that there lies beneath hundreds of bodies from the 1665 plague. It sort of dulls the grandiosity of the this major piece of sculpture knowing the ugliness that is below it. However maybe it's not such a dichotomy for those who have studied the realities of the Victorian era.
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the vampire rabbit is located at the back of the cathedral buildings(once used by the rich coal merchants as their offices and now used by solicitors), which face the back of st.nicholas cathedral. The Uni is at the other end of Newcastle.
anyway, thanks for dropping by susanna, cynthia and angela.
eek, that would be something else. hey thanks for visiting beaman.