In 2002 Paul Kelleher attempted to decapitate a marble statue of Margaret Thatcher using what 'weapon', he failed, but succeeded using a metal rope support stanchion?
"there by Thatcher in May 1998. On 3 July 2002, theatre producer Paul Kelleher decapitated the statue while it was on display at Guildhall Art Gallery. Having unsuccessfully taken a swing at the statue with a Slazenger V600 cricket bat concealed in his trousers, Kelleher picked up a metal pole from a nearby rope cordon and used it to decapitate the £150,000 statue. After the beheading he waited to be arrested by the police who arrived minutes later. He joked on capture, ""I think it looks better like that."" Following the loss of its head, the statue was removed from"
"the Speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon. Michael Martin MP. During a speech at the unveiling, Baroness Thatcher, nicknamed ""The Iron Lady"" during her tenure as Prime Minister, said, ""I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on."" The beheading comment was in reference to a previous statue of Thatcher which was vandalised through decapitation whilst on loan to London's Guildhall Art Gallery. After its erection, the statue was compared unfavourably with other statues due to its height as it is only around taller than"
"1990s. During this time, Wilkinson Sword produced ceremonial swords for the Household Cavalry of the British Army, and crafted the ceremonial sword for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002. The sword factory combined state of the art manufacturing technology with traditional skills and 19th century machinery to produce original fighting quality swords. The production of swords came to an end when the company's sword factory at Acton closed in September 2005. Wilkinson Sword then held an auction of the tools, equipment, sword drawings, and forging and milling machinery. Robert Pooley, who had commissioned the company to produce swords,"
"of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher erected in Parliament Square. The Council turned down the application as it did not meet the 10 year rule (that a minimum of 10 years have to pass following the subject's death) and that the Thatcher family opposed the design. Other statues of Thatcher exist in London: the one in the Guildhall was decapitated in 2002, and the following year another was commissioned for the interior of the Palace of Westminster. Others commented that the location was the appropriate one, but that the statue should be of someone more radical: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia"
"LXXI years later in MDCCCLIII"". It was quickly criticised as being one of the worst pieces of sculpture in England. A similar marble statue of Napier, also by George Gammon Adams, stands in the Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, with Napier similarly in uniform and bearheaded, with his right hand resting on his sword and his left hand on his hip holding a scroll. In 1936 it was suggested that the statues of Generals Napier and Havelock in Trafalgar Square should be replaced by statues of Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, the naval commanders at the Battle of Jutland in 1916,"
"Statue of Margaret Thatcher (London Guildhall) The statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Guildhall, London, is a marble sculpture of Margaret Thatcher. It was commissioned in 1998 from the sculptor Neil Simmons by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art; paid for by an anonymous donor, it was intended for a plinth among statues of former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons. However as the House did not permit a statue to be erected there during its subject's lifetime, the work had been temporarily housed in Guildhall. It was unveiled"
"21 February 2007 with Thatcher in attendance; she remarked in the Members' Lobby of the Commons: ""I might have preferred ironbut bronze will do ... It won't rust."" Thatcher was a public supporter of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism and the resulting Prague Process, and sent a public letter of support to its preceding conference. After collapsing at a House of Lords dinner, Thatcher, suffering low blood pressure, was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London on 7 March 2008 for tests. In 2009 she was hospitalised again when she fell and broke her arm. Thatcher"
"versions at Osborne House, and Norwich Castle. In 1844 Bell entered his ""Eagle Slayer"" and ""Jane Shore"" in the competition held for sculpture for the new Houses of Parliament. A cast-iron version of the ""Eagle Slayer"" - the first statue ever to be made from the material - was produced for The Great Exhibition of 1851, where it stood under a canopy surmounted by the eagle. It was later placed outside the South Kensington Museum, and is now in the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. He also exhibited a sculpture of Shakespeare at the 1851 exhibition, which was"
"about layers of ""mineralized waxings"" on the surface of the bronze led to the 18-month intervention. The statue was scraped with scalpels (on the non-gilded areas) and lasered (on the gilded areas) to remove surface build-up. There is a full-size plaster cast (with a broken sword) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There is also a full-size white marble copy in the Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, a few miles outside central London. In addition to the copies in the United Kingdom, there is also another copy at the Slater Museum at the Norwich Free"
"in North-West London. A memorial to Foot in Plymouth was vandalised with Nazi symbols in the wake of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum in July 2016. Foot was portrayed by Patrick Godfrey in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's long unproduced ""The Falklands Play"" and by Michael Pennington in the film ""The Iron Lady"". Foot was likened to the scarecrow Worzel Gummidge in ""Dear Bill"", a long-running series of fictional letters which appeared in the British satirical magazine ""Private Eye"", purportedly written by Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, to his friend and golfing partner Bill"
"portrayed by Patricia Hodge in Ian Curteis's long unproduced ""The Falklands Play"" (2002) and by Andrea Riseborough in the TV film ""The Long Walk to Finchley"" (2008). She is the protagonist in two films, played by Lindsay Duncan in ""Margaret"" (2009) and by Meryl Streep in ""The Iron Lady"" (2011), in which she is depicted as suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Thatcher became a Privy Councillor (PC) upon becoming Secretary of State for Education and Science in 1970. She was the first woman entitled to full membership rights as an honorary member of the Carlton Club on becoming Leader"
"February 2007, a new statue of Thatcher was commissioned in 2003 from sculptor Antony Dufort and this time in tougher silicon bronze. It was erected on the reserved plinth in the Members' Lobby. The rule against living subjects had been relaxed by this stage and Thatcher unveiled the statue. By then, the marble statue had been repaired, but it remains in Guildhall. After several years in the Guildhall Art Gallery, the statue was moved to a corridor location elsewhere in the Guildhall building. Statue of Margaret Thatcher (London Guildhall) The statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Guildhall, London, is a"
"the Pre-Raphaelites. He designed Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb for Robert Browning in the English Cemetery, Florence in 1861. In 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President (1878–96). His 1877 sculpture, ""Athlete Wrestling with a Python"", was considered at its time to inaugurate a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture, referred to as the New Sculpture. American art critic Earl Shinn claimed at the time that ""Except Leighton, there is scarce any one capable of putting up a correct frescoed figure in the archway of the Kensington Museum."" His paintings represented Britain at"
"of many figures against the pillars on the ground floor; His other works exhibited included: ""Satan tempting Eve"" and ""Satan Vanquished"" (c.1845), a double group for a chimney piece in Buckingham Palace; ""Eve contemplating Death"" (1853); ""The Angel"", and ""Evening: Going to the Bath"" (1861); ""Euphrosyne and Cupid"" (1865); ""Cupid's Cruise"" (1867); ""Blackberry Picking: the Thorn"" (1870); ""Zingari"" (1871); ""Eve's Dream"" (1873); ""The Bathers"" (1877); statuettes of ""Ophelia"" (1879) and ""Lady Godiva"" (1879); and ""Shielding the Helpless"" (1883); Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness; His life-size group in bronze of ""The ""Deer stalker"""", a crouching semi-nude male figure with a"
"forty years after its installation it was discovered to be riddled with holes and to have never been properly attached to its pedestal. It narrowly escaped destruction during the Second World War when a German bomb dropped during the Blitz landed a few metres away and peppered it with shrapnel. The pedestal and the horse's tail were damaged and Richard's sword was bent by the blast. In 2009, the Parliamentary authorities undertook a project to conserve and restore the statue. The statue was created by Baron Carlo Marochetti and is located in Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster,"
"called for the removal of the statue only a week after it was installed. He gained the support of three other MPs, including Glenda Jackson. In 2013, MPs were warned not to touch the statue's toes for good luck as it was damaging it. Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Palace of Westminster) The statue of Margaret Thatcher inside the Houses of Parliament, London, is a bronze sculpture of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was ordered in 2003 following a change in rules to allow the depiction of living Prime Ministers in Parliament under certain"
"(2017), Edward Barrett dates the current Mourning Sword to 1615 or 1623. It has a blade long and wide, and a hilt. While the velvet on the scabbard looks black, it is actually very deep maroon. The Mourning Sword was carried by then-Lord Mayor Roger Gifford at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher in 2013, leading the Queen and Prince Philip in and out of St Paul's Cathedral for the ceremony. It had not previously been used at a funeral since the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965. In addition to its use at funerals, it is used on"
"only a single piece of fixed gear, a piton, which he later regretted, deeming it unnecessary. In 1941 George Hopkins parachuted onto Devils Tower, without permission, as a publicity stunt resulting from a bet. He had intended to descend by a 1,000 ft (300 m) rope dropped to him after successfully landing on the butte, but the package containing the rope, a sledge hammer and a car axle to be driven into the rock as an anchor point slid over the edge. As the weather deteriorated, a second attempt was made to drop equipment, but Hopkins deemed it unusable after"
"McBeath. Jennings lives and works in Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Martin Jennings Martin Jennings is a British sculptor, born in 1957, who works in the figurative tradition. His statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station was unveiled in 2007 and the statue of Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon Interchange station was presented in 2010. A bronze monument by Jennings commemorating the pioneer plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe was unveiled on the High Street, East Grinstead, in June 2014. Jennings' own father, Michael Jennings, a tank commander badly injured near Eindhoven in 1944,"
"the City must serve society – and be seen to do so."" While Lord Mayor, he carried the Mourning Sword at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, leading the Queen and Prince Philip in and out of St Paul's Cathedral for the ceremony. The last time it had been used was at the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965. Fortunately for the monarch, she narrowly missed being struck by the ceremonial sword as Mr. Gifford swirled around to go up the steps of the cathedral. The quick instincts of the Queen saved the day, and her consort seemed to"
"July 1912, Mary Leigh threw a hatchet at Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. On the evening of 9 March 1914, about 40 militant suffragettes, including members of the Bodyguard team, brawled with several squads of police constables who were attempting to re-arrest Emmeline Pankhurst during a pro-suffrage rally at St. Andrew's Hall in Glasgow. The following day, suffragette Mary Richardson (known as one of the most militant activists, also called ""Slasher"" Richardson) walked into the National Gallery and attacked Diego Velázquez's painting, Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. In 1913 suffragette militancy caused £54,000 worth of damage, £36,000 of which"
"removed as a cord was pulled. Others present at the unveiling included The Queen Mother, members of the Churchill family across four generations, Edward Heath (then Prime Minister), and four former Prime Ministers. The Band of the Royal Marines played several of Churchill's favourite pieces of music. The statue has been defaced on a number of occasions during protests held in Parliament Square. In 2000, at the May Day protest the statue was sprayed with red paint to give the appearance of blood dripping from its mouth and a strip of grass was placed on top of the head, giving"
"if he attended her Silver Jubilee in 1977, according to Lord Mountbatten's diary at the time. In 2012 the ceremonial surrender of the Pearl Sword was carried out during her Diamond Jubilee. In 2016 the Pearl Sword was carried by Lord Mayor Jeffrey Mountevans to lead the Queen into St Paul's Cathedral for a service in honour of her official 90th birthday. The State Sword forms one half of the Sword and Mace, symbols of the authority of the Lord Mayor and the City of London Corporation. At ceremonial events it is carried by the Sword Bearer, while the mace"
"could be used on either the model or the marble. By 1769, he was working for Ms Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory and in that year he was awarded the first gold medal for sculpture awarded by the Royal Academy for a bas-relief representing the escape of Aeneas and Anchises from Troy. In 1770, he exhibited a figure of Mars, redone in marble the next year for Mr Pelhalm, which gained him the gold medal from the Society of Arts and his election as an associate of the Royal Academy (ARA). In 1771, Ms Coade appointed him works supervisor at her"
"was unveiled at Fulham FC to celebrate Cohen's remarkable career and the 50th anniversary of England's famous World Cup victory in 1966. In 2015, the quality of Douglas's work was commended by the Public Monuments and Statues Association. He was presented with the 'Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture' for his WWII memorial statue of Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji. This was commissioned by Gravesham Borough Council and is located in public parkland by the River Thames. In 2016 Douglas Jennings was commissioned to create a bronze memorial statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher dressed in full ceremonial robes of"
"go through three glass panes before Bialla caught it with his teeth. He was seriously wounded nine times but survived. He was portrayed in the 1972 documentary film ""Wer schießt auf Ralf Bialla?"". He died in 1975 after falling off a cliff, supposedly because of constant dizziness caused by the injuries. In 1964 Nigel Backhurst (who later performed as Nigel Gordon) developed a version of the Bullet Catch using a .22 Air Rifle, which he performed for his membership audition to the Staffordshire Magical Society. He later wrote an article describing the method used in Abracadabra and continued to perform"
"sure it will become a much-loved addition to the BBC"". On BBC News Jennings explained his decision to elevate the statue: ""Of course you make aesthetic decisions as well. He’s up against a great big cliff of a stone wall and you need to frame it within that space. It couldn’t have been at ground level"". In 2018 the statue won the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association's Marsh Award for Public Sculpture. This was the first time the prize had been awarded to the same sculptor for two years in succession, Jennings having won in 2017 with ""Women of Steel"","
"the top of All Saints steeple. He did this on a number of occasions, landing variously at St Michael's church and at the bottom of St Mary's Gate. On one occasion an ass was sent down the rope, but it broke under its weight and a number of onlookers were injured. On 25 July 1940 a wartime barrage balloon broke loose from its moorings during a heavy storm, and as it floated past its chain caught round one of the pinnacles on the tower and demolished the top half of the pinnacle. In late 2005 it was discovered that a"
"of the recent Battle of Blenheim in 1704. He was a Tory MP for Callington (twice in 1701) (a pocket borough of the Rolle family) and for Devon (1702–1710). Underneath the statue, possibly intended to be free-standing and not on top of this building, is its original base, now seated somewhat incongruously above the Royal Arms. On the base is an escutcheon showing a cartouche with the arms of Rolle (""Or, on a fesse dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants""), now much worn, above which is the Rolle crest: ""A"
"Needle Tower Needle Tower is a public artwork by American sculptor Kenneth Snelson located outside of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., United States. This very tall abstract sculpture is a tapering tower made of aluminum and stainless steel. The aluminum tubes act in compression, held in tension by the stainless steel cables threaded through in the ends of the tubes. The piece was a gift of Joseph Hirshhorn in 1974. Snelson's unique sculpture style is well articulated in ""Needle Tower"". The structure style displayed is known as ""tensegrity,"" a description given by Snelson's former professor Buckminster"
"is signed ""1844"", and may therefore have been posthumous. The bust remains on display in Bicton House in 2013. In 1845 he assisted in the decoration of the summer pavilion at Buckingham Palace and sent two of his group sculptures the Great Exhibition of 1851, where they attracted notice: ""Satan Vanquished"" and ""Satan tempting Eve"", for a chimneypiece at Buckingham Palace. In 1864 Stephens was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, but possibly in the mistaken belief on the part of the members that he was Alfred Stevens, the sculptor of the Wellington monument in St. Paul's Cathedral, London."
"starting pistol, but at ""the B of the Bang"". The sculpture was commissioned in 2003; construction overran and the official unveiling was delayed until 12 January 2005. Six days before the launch, the sculpture suffered the first of three visible structural problems as the tip of one of the spikes detached and fell to the ground. Legal action started a year later, resulting in an out-of-court settlement totalling £1.7 million. In February 2009, Manchester City Council announced that the sculpture would be dismantled and placed in storage. Despite the promise of storage and potential reassembly, the core and legs of"
"during Jones's constituency surgery. A constituent whom Jones had been helping with legal disputes attended the surgery suddenly attacked him with a samurai sword; Pennington came to Jones's defence but was fatally injured; he was stabbed nine times from behind – with at least six of the wounds going all the way through his body. Jones was badly injured in the hands. Pennington was posthumously awarded the George Medal by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 October 2001. The citation reads: In February 2001 Robert Ashman, 49, of Lansdown Place, Cheltenham, was initially charged with the murder of Pennington and the"