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    London's Fountains & Monuments

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    Post by Dawn on Fri 21 May 2010, 8:12 pm

    These two fountains are in the Pavilion square


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    Post by Dawn on Sun 23 May 2010, 11:10 pm

    This fountain is at the Italian gardens it is at the very end of the serpentine


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    Post by Dawn on Sun 23 May 2010, 11:12 pm

    A view of the same fountain,

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    Post by Dawn on Sun 23 May 2010, 11:15 pm

    The same fountain from another angle, as I think you can see I really loved this fountain, the photos somehow never gave it any justice. It was much more beautiful in real life.





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    Post by Dawn on Mon 24 May 2010, 4:53 pm

    The four bronze horses of Helios, a fountain on the cnr of Piccadilly and Haymarket.
    The story goes (a Greek legend) Helios Greek god of the sun.......

    The Legend




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    Post by Dawn on Sat 29 May 2010, 6:48 am

    Still walking west towards Lambeth Bridge in the Victoria Tower Gardens is The Buxton Memorial Fountain.







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    Post by Joy on Sat 29 May 2010, 10:26 am

    Dawn wrote:Still walking west towards Lambeth Bridge in the Victoria Tower Gardens is The Buxton Memorial Fountain.








    These emancipators were, indeed, well ahead of the times. They would have fought for years before the slave trade was banned in British colonies.

    Those trees are magnificent, too.

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