Admiralty Arch And Captain James Cook
by Gill Billington
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Admiralty Arch And Captain James Cook
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Gill Billington
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Photograph - Photography
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©Gill Billington. All rights reserved. Admiralty Arch in London stands between Trafalgar Square and The Mall that leads up to Buckingham Palace. It was commissioned by King Edward Vll in memory of his mother, Queen Victoria.
It was designed by Aston Webb who was also the designer of the Victoria Memorial and built by John Mowlem & Co. The work was finished in 1912 and was the official residence of the First Sea Lord, a post held by Louis Mountbatten. It also housed government offices originally for the Admiralty.
The Latin inscription above the arch: “ANNO DECIMO EDWARDI SEPTIMI REGIS VICTORIAE REGINAE CIVES GRATISSIMI MDCCCCX” translates to “In the tenth year of King Edward VII, to Queen Victoria, from most grateful citizens, 1910.”
In 2012 the building was sold with a 125 year lease and is being renovated and turned into a luxury hotel with views over Buckingham Palace which should be finished in 2022.
The statue next to Admiralty Arch, designed by Sir Thomas Brock who also sculpted the Queen Victoria Memorial, is of Captain James Cook, the explorer, navigator and cartographer who lived between 1728 and 1779. He joined the Royal Navy in 1755 and circumnavigated the globe, mapping lands from Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean where he was sadly murdered at the age of 50.
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July 30th, 2019
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