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On a glorious Sunday morning, the Mayors of all London boroughs, led by the Lord Mayor, joined us to launch the upcoming restoration of the Whittington Stone.

 

This much loved monument to the iconic Londoner Dick Whittington will shortly begin restoration, including stone repairs and recut lettering, a cleaned ‘Dick Whittington cat’ and refurbished and repainted railings. There will be an interpretation panel on the adjacent wall. Over 150 young people have already been involved in the project through our Proud Places programme and more will visit the stonemasons at work. 

 

Dr Nicola Stacey praised the Mayors for their commitment to local heritage all across the city and thanked Islington Council for their support for this project.

 

Local resident Joanna Whittington said: "We are delighted about this project to restore the Whittington Stone. The story and the monument mean a huge amount to Londoners and we are glad to be associated by name with such an illustrious man!"


Led by the Lord Mayor, all the Mayors of London walk every year along the route of Dick Whittington’s walk into London, an event organised by the Lord Mayor’s Association. The project will start in 2025, generously supported by Knight Frank.

HOLT’s Director Dr Nicola Stacey has an opinion piece on Public Art in this week’s Big Issue.


"These public sculptures embed in people’s lives and experiences in the way that many art collections, wonderful as they are, cannot."


Nicola writes of the enormous social impact of public art for communities, particularly as part of local housing developments, and calls for more support for public art schemes to create “the heritage of generations in the future.”


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We are celebrating a win for the Byron Statue project today as the long campaign to raise funds for its relocation to Hyde Park has succeeded with £230k lottery funding. HOLT has supported the project with a grant and helped the Byron Society's fundraising efforts. Work should start later this year.

 

Proud Places has already involved nearly 450 young people in the project through assemblies, workshops and visits to the statue which will continue throughout the project. 

 

HOLT's 2024 Poet for Places, Kira Nelson, wrote a ballad Vyronas in honour of Byron’s bicentenary, visiting some of London's alternative provision schools to teach young people poetry. With Kira's support, students at Ormiston Latimer Academy overcame their poetry inhibitions and produced wonderful poems inspired by the project.

 

Read more in the article below published in today's Times newspaper.


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