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Not every statue in London. The ones worth crossing the road for: Roman wall, medieval ruins, and the monuments that earn a detour.
The Grand Old Duke of York, on a column paid for by docking every soldier a day's wages.
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Prince Frederick, second son of George III, commander-in-chief of the army and the duke of the nursery rhyme, died in 1827 owing a fortune, and the column was raised in 1834 by stopping a day's pay from every officer and man. It is thirty-eight metres of pink Aberdeen granite with a bronze duke by Westmacott on top, and the joke at the time was that he had been put up there to keep out of reach of his creditors. There is a staircase inside, closed to the public since the 1950s. It looks straight down the Duke of York Steps to St James's Park.
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