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Peter Pan statue

The boy who wouldn't grow up, put up overnight so that the children would think he had arrived by magic.

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Photo by Peter Clarke, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Also in Art and Literary London.

J. M. Barrie commissioned George Frampton and paid for it himself, and had it erected in secret on the night of 30 April 1912 so that on May Day morning it was simply there, on the bank of the Long Water where Peter lands in The Little White Bird. He plays a pipe on a bronze tree stump crowded with rabbits, mice, squirrels and fairies, and a century of hands has polished the rabbits gold. Barrie lived across the road at Bayswater and walked here every day. There are six other casts around the world, but this is the first, on the spot Barrie chose.

Where
Kensington Gardens, W2 2UH
Nearest station
Lancaster Gate · 5 min walk

Kensington Gardens, gates 06:00 to dusk

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