Monarchs - Queen Victoria - Adlington, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 36.721 W 002° 36.492
30U E 525920 N 5940426
This statue of Queen Victoria stands on the roof of a small terraced house and was erected to celebrate her Golden Jubilee in 1887
Waymark Code: WMPR4C
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/11/2015
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This statue
Unusually this statue was erected by a private person rather than a town or other such organisation.
At the time the house belonged to a local builder and stone mason, Leonard Fairclough. He was presumably a keen supporter of the monarchy, but as there is a cemetery nearby it's possible that he just used the occasion to advertise his stone mason skills and capability of carving funerary sized statues.
In any event his company went to become extremely successful and in 1982 Fairclough and William Press Group merged to form AMEC a large a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
In the statue she is depicted wearing full regalia, crowned, and with her Empress of India medal pinned to a shoulder sash. She is also holding a folded fan in her hands.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. She was awarded the title of The Empress of India in 1877. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set.
She had 9 children during her marriage to Prince Albert. Their nine children and 26 of their 34 grandchildren who survived childhood married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe"
Victoria had been a much loved figure before and after she became queen, but after he died in 1861 aged only 42, she fell into a state of depression and largely withdrew from public life. However after 20 years or so, she slowly re-entered public life and after her jubilees was fully restored to public favour.
Monarch Ranking: Emperor / Empress
Proper Title and Name of Monarch: Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India.
Country or Empire of Influence: United Kingdom and India
Website for additonal information: [Web Link]
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