26 June 2014 ~ Kingston on Thames Square

Listening to: White Mice ~ True Love


Last week on our lunch break from the customer meeting, we grabbed some soup/sandwiches and took a Riverside Walk.

The view of the River Thames and the Kingston Bridge was beautiful and the weather lovely.

This is the central marketplace. The building in the background is the Old Town Hall.

Statue of Queen Victoria.

The Shrubsole Memorial was created by Francis John Williamson (1833-1920) with Carrara marble on a Cornish granite pedestal. It commemorates Henry Shrubsole, whose family's fortunes followed an unusual trajectory, from undertaking and drapery to banking. Shrubsole himself was three times Mayor of Kingston, dying in office in 1880. In this tableau, a gracefully-robed woman carries an urn on one shoulder and is holding the hand of a little boy, who crouches to gather water in a little bowl.

I liked the architecture of this building and the 1422 A.D. caught my attention.