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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.
Thirty-six thousand names of merchant seamen with no grave but the sea, beside the spot where the Tower's prisoners were beheaded.
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Lutyens built the first part in 1928, a colonnade with bronze panels naming the 12,000 men of the merchant navy and the fishing fleets lost in the First World War. Edward Maufe added the sunken garden in 1955, with 24,000 more from the Second World War, listed ship by ship. The gardens in front hold a small railed plot with a plaque naming the people executed on the scaffold here between 1388 and 1747: Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Cromwell, Archbishop Laud, and last of all Lord Lovat, whose beheading was so well attended that a stand collapsed and killed nine spectators. The Tower is across the road, but the executions were up here, in public.
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