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6 unusual facts about Hyde Park Corner


Geraldine Hervey, Marchioness of Bristol

Lady Bristol died in 25 January 1927 in St George's Hospital on Hyde Park Corner after being knocked down by a motor car and was buried in the grounds of the family home, Ickworth House, two days later.

Hyde Park Corner

In the centre of the Hyde Park Corner traffic island stands the Wellington Arch (or Constitution Arch), designed by Decimus Burton and planned as a northern gate to the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

Originally, the arch was topped with an equestrian statue of the Duke (by Matthew Cotes Wyatt).

"Hyde Park Corner" was used as a code to announce to the government the death of King George VI in 1952.

Kilnhurst

Charles was famous for a number of war memorials commemorating the First World War, such as the Royal Artillery Memorial (1925) which stands at Hyde Park Corner in London, while David was famous for his portrait of Robert Baden-Powell.

Nathan Dunn

100,000 visitors saw it in Philadelphia and an equal number in London, where the Collection was displayed in a pagoda-like exhibition hall at Hyde Park Corner in 1842.


James Catnach

Very shortly after, they were evicted and moved firstly to a small shop in Wardour Street, Soho (while living in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square), followed by another move to Gerard Street, where, after falling down stairs on 29 August 1813, John Catnach was taken to St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, where he died on 4 December 1813.

Matthew Cotes Wyatt

Wyatt also sculpted the enormous bronze equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington which originally stood on the top of the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.

Walter C. Hackett

Several of his stage works (such as Captain Applejack, Freedom of the Seas, Regeneration, Hyde Park Corner, The Gay Adventure, 77 Rue Chalgrin, The Barton Mystery, It Pays to Advertise, 77 Park Lane, It Pays to Advertise and Other Men's Wives) were adapted for film.


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Watts Warehouse

The bronze statue depicts the sentry wearing a Tommy helmet, World War I battle gear and a cape, standing on guard with his rifle with fixed bayonet upright, and was commissioned from the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger who also designed the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London.