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Michael Faraday Memorial

A stainless-steel box in the middle of the Elephant and Castle roundabout, a memorial to Faraday that is also an electricity substation for the Tube.

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Faraday was born a few hundred yards away in Newington Butts in 1791, the son of a blacksmith, and his memorial is the most Faraday-like thing imaginable: Rodney Gordon's 1961 cube of stainless steel panels, lit from within at night, that houses the transformer feeding the Northern line beneath it. The roundabout has been rebuilt around it more than once; the box stays, an electrical machine dressed as sculpture, and the only memorial in London you can hear humming.

Where
Elephant and Castle, SE1 6TE
Nearest station
Elephant & Castle · 5 min walk

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