Community celebrates agreement on 1860 indentured labourers’ monument design
Community leaders express satisfaction with the new design for a monument honouring Indian indentured labourers in South Africa, following years of debate and controversy.
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Design for 1860 monument approved
“For 11 years we submitted the same proposal – a man, woman and child on a plinth. We wanted a monument, that when you walk past it, you would not have to guess what it was. This monument with ...
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Coke's Monument
The monument's plinth shows sculptures of an ox, sheep, plough and seed-drill and the top is surmounted by a drum supporting a wheatsheaf. Coke's work to increase farm yields resulted in the ...
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Monument to the People's Heroes
Of such high quality the monument is projected to last 800 to 1,000 years. The lower plinth is decorated with 10 two meter high marble bas reliefs depicting the Chinese revolutionary movement over ...
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Fundraiser launched for damaged war memorial
The stone cross in Awbridge, Hampshire, was knocked off its plinth and several of the large ... Peter Allen The monument still had Remembrance wreaths on it at the time of the collision The ...
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Finally, Margaret Thatcher’s statue on a 10ft plinth, to be erected in Grantham
The town of Grantham, in central England, agreed to house the statue with one important condition: that the controversial 10.5-foot monument stands atop an equally tall granite plinth to help ...
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on a plinth. On top is a seated mourning female figure (with many broken fingers) resting her left elbow on a sheep's skin lying over a tablet lettered 'Massachusets Bay, New England'. The monument, ...