London Photo Tours for Visitors
Victoria Tower Gardens
Situated next to the Palace of Westminster just past the Victoria Tower - you often see TV. interviews with politicians here. This is the place to go when you ae tired from walking around - you can sit down on a seat and look out over the river Thames and also get a good view of the London Eye one way and the Albert Bridge the other. There is nowhere to get refreshments in the immediate area, no shops.
Emmeline Pankhurst: (1858-1928) - leader of the Suffragette movement.
Statue by A J Walker 1930 - at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens. Emmeline's right hand indicates the way into parliament just behind her.
The Suffragette movement fought for the right for Women to vote, at great cost to themselves. Women achieved suffrage at the end of the First World War, having kept the country running pretty well while most of the men were away.
The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin - 1908.
This is one of many versions of the Burghers of Calais by Rodin - this one in London is on a high plinth - Rodin wanted them at ground level to be among the crowd which make perfect sense of the subject matter: the one in Calais is lower.
Also in Victoria Tower Gardens is the Buxton Memorial Fountain which commemorated the abolition of slavery 1834. (Photo coming).
Nearest Tube: Westminster - go anti-clockwise around Houses of Parliament and enter the gate at the Pankhurst statue.
