- надпись:
- NELSON
- предмет с изображением:
- марка
- оформление:
- 1906.
- Барбадос.
- Barbados.
- Нельсон.
- Полная серия.
- Барбадос.
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- файл
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- посвящённый предмет:
- библиография
- [Stanley Gibbons № 145 - 151]
- название:
- Колонна адмирала Нельсона
- Nelson's column
- история:
- В 2006 отреставрирована.
- место:
- Трафальгарская площадь
- Trafalgar square
- композиция:
- главные сражения адмирала изображены на подиуме
- оформление:
- h = 55 м.
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- файл
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- aviewoncities.com
- Nelson's column
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- история:
- The siting of the statue of Lord Nelson has been the subject of some controversy for many years.
He was originally placed in Pembroke Gardens so that he looked towards that part of Southsea Beach where it is believed that he embarked for his flagship HMS Victory in September 1805.
Unfortunately he was placed some 200yds from the beach and over the years his "view" of it became increasingly obstructed by the construction of a funfair.
Eventually he just seemed isolated and it was proposed to move the statue to a more appropriate position.
Many locations were suggested but the City Council settled for a site in Grand Parade, a few yards from the sloping path leading up to the Saluting Platform. This decision has satisfied few people as Nelson is now in such a position that he could only "see" the sea if he stood on tiptoes, thereby defeating the very object of moving the statue.
Whilst discussing the new location for the statue, it is said that regard was had for the route that Nelson took from the George Hotel, where he had breakfasted that September morning in 1805, to the beach from where he was ferried to the Victory. The route itself had been the subject of much debate over the years but it is now broadly agreed that it began when he left from the rear of the George Hotel onto Penny Street and turned right. He then turned left and walked along what is now Pembroke Road until he reached the fortifications; at that point he turned right and followed the line of the earthworks to a tunnel under the Long Curtain. The tunnel lead out onto a drawbridge across the moat, the far end of which was Spur Redoubt. A narrow passage on the Redoubt led onto the beach where his barge and several hundred well-wishers were waiting.
The new location for the statue is several hundred yards from any point on Nelson's last walk.
It should also be noted that when in its original position, a lectern supporting a plaque had been sited a hundred feet in front of the statue. This does not appear to have accompanied the statue to Grand Parade.
- перемещение:
- in Pembroke Gardens ( - )
in Grand Parade, adjacent to the slope leading up to the Saluting Platform
- надпись:
- inscription:
- (Front)
- 21 OCTOBER
- 1805
(on the steps)
- HERE SERVED HORATIO NELSON
- YOU WHO TREAD HIS FOOTSTEPS
- REMEMBER HIS GLORY.
(Left)
- NELSON'S PRAYER
MAY THE GREAT GOD WHOM
- I WORSHIP GRANT TO MY COUNTRY
- AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF EUROPE IN
- GENERAL A GREAT AND GLORIOUS
- VICTORY AND MAY NO MISCONDUCT
- IN ANY ONE TARNISH IT-AND MAY
- HUMANITY AFTER VICTORY BE THE
- PREDOMINANT FEATURE IN THE
- BRITISH FLEET. FOR MYSELF INDIVIDUALLY
- I COMMIT MY LIFE TO HIM THAT MADE
- ME AND MAY HIS BLESSING ALIGHT
- ON MY ENDEAVOURS FOR SERVING
- MY COUNTRY FAITHFULLY. TO HIM
- I RESIGN MYSELF AND THE JUST CAUSE
- WHICH IT IS ENTRUSTED TO ME
- TO DEFEND
- AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.
(Back)
- PRESENTED
- BY
- HERBERT J. ALDOUS LRCS., L.S.A.
- FROM WHOSE DESIGNS
- THIS SCULPTOR WORKED
- F. BROOK HITCH F.R.B.S.
(Left)
- HORATIO VISCOUNT NELSON-KB
- DUKE OF BRONTE IN SICILY
- VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE
- HIS LAST HOURS IN ENGLAND
- BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE BATTLE OF
- TRAFALGAR WERE SPENT AT THE
- GEORGE HOTEL HIGH ST PORTSMOUTH
- WHICH HOTEL WAS DESTROYED WITH
- A GREAT PART OF PORTSMOUTH IN
- A GERMAN AIR RAID ON THIS CITY
- ON JANUARY 10th-11th 1941
- HIS REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO
- SPITHEAD DECEMBER 4th 1805 ON
- BOARD H.M.S.VICTORY WHICH SHIP
- WAS BADLY DAMAGED IN THE FOREFOOT
- BY A BOMB IN A RAID ON THE 10th MARCH 1941
(on lectern)
- THE STATUE
- LORD NELSON IS IN THE UNDRESS UNIFORM
- HE WORE WHEN LEAVING PORTSMOUTH
- FOR TRAFALGAR. THE COAT WHICH HE
- WAS WEARING WHEN MORTALLY WOUNDED
- HAS BEEN CAREFULLY COPIED. HE PASSED
- OVER THE SPOT WHERE THE STATUE
- STANDS 14TH SEPT 1805 IT FACES THE PLACE
- ON THE BEACH WHERE HE EMBARKED FOR
- H.M.S. VICTORY. HE WAS SHORT AND THIN
- BUT THIS CANNOT BE SHOWN IN A SINGLE
- STATUE FOR IF MADE THIN HE APPEARS TALL
- THE UNIFORM IS CORRECT TO THE
- SMALLEST DETAIL. THE SWORD IS A COPY
- OF THE ONE HE ALWAYS WORE
- PORTSMOUTH WAS THE LAST ENGLISH
- TOWN HE EVER SAW
- 21 OCTOBER
- оформление:
- The statue stands on a plinth (~1570 mm2).
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- nelson
- memorials.inportsmouth
- in Pembroke Gardens
- memorials.inportsmouth
- in Grand Parade
- memorials.inportsmouth
- lectern
- memorials.inportsmouth
- место:
- Лэлтон-хилл
- предмет с изображением:
- иллюстрация
- [2609 с. 139]
- [2609 с. 141]
- сайт
- Nelson's Column on Portsdown Hill
- The Lord Nelson Web Site
- Lord Nelson on the BBC
- The Lord Nelson Web Site