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(Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale) West Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside Skircoat Road / Heath Road
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Prince AlbertPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and GothaSchloss Rosenau, Coburg, 1819 - Windsor Castle 1861 the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (Wikipedia) |
Thomas Thornycroft
1864 |
Equestrian statue of Prince Albert on his horse Nimrod. Unveiled by Sir Francis Crossley on 17 September 1864.
Just as with several other equestrian statues in England also of this statue the myth is told that the sculptor Thomas Thornycroft had got the horse’s legs wrong and that he'd committed suicide on realizing his mistake.
Thornicroft died however 21 years later in 1885, and the unusual pose portrays Prince Albert and his horse Nimrod 'ambling', a type of trot favoured by the pair.
ALBERT prince consort born august 26, 1819 died december 13, 1861 |
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