I went on the hunt for #womenstatues in London today. There really are very few - basically you have to be a queen or queen consort to be celebrated in bronze or stone. Or am I wrong?

Here's Queen Anne outside @StPaulsLondon

Here's Queen Eleanor on the replica Eleanor Cross outside @NetworkRailCHX #womenstatues

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother stands subservient below King George VI on The Mall. There was really no need for this as they moved the statue of the king at the same time. The bronze freezes are a bit iffy! #womenstatues

Four more #womenstatues found today. First we have Margaret MacDonald, wife of PM Ramsey and founder of the first trade schools for girls in 1904 - encouraging women to gain skills for work. Honoured in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Here's Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake in Tavistock Square. First British female qualified surgeon. #womenstatues

Also in Tavistock Square is a monument to Virginia Woolf, writer. #womenstatues

In nearby Gordon Square there is a bust of Noor Inayat Khan. The British secret agent was the first female radio operator sent into Occupied France in June 1943. Betrayed, tortured, then murdered in the Dachau camp. If you think #womenstatues are rare, women of colour statues...

Perhaps the most famous non-royal? Here's Florence Nightingale at the bottom of Waterloo Place by the Crimea memorial. Nightingale identified many better nursing practices - cleanliness and order - which are still in use today.

A memorial - and the figure isn't her, but this bronze work in Marlborough Road St James's is for the memory of Queen Alexandra, consort to King Edward VII. Her charitable work paid for a ship to return injured soldiers from the Sudan Campaign and Boer War.

Just along Marlborough Road on the corner of The Mall is this simple bust/plaque to Queen Mary, consort to King George V. A popular figure, there have been loads of things named in her honour - bridges, universities, parks, streets, ships etc. #womenstatues

My walk carried on. Looking down The Mall from in front of Buckingham Palace is perhaps the largest #womenstatues of them all. The Queen Victoria Memorial. Over 20 years in the planning and development, it was completed in 1924 along with Admiralty Arch and the palace's façade.

Not a #womenstatues but a memorial to PC Yvonne Fletcher, murdered outside of the Libyan embassy in St James's Square in 1984. Interesting factoid: I was there! In London on an Easter family trip, we took a short cut and were passing the protest as the shots came. We ran!

Millicent Garrett Fawcett has a deserved place on the list of #womenstatues. Suffragist and union leader, she worked relentlessly to gain women more rights and the vote. The statue has only been there since 2018 and was the first #womenstatues in Parliament Square.

The other side of parliament is Victoria Tower Gardens and Emmeline Pankhurst, a Moss Side lass who founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words". Perhaps the oldest of #womenstatues - 1930?

Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline, is remembered in the memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens as well. A co-founder of the WSPU, she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. Had a law degree, spent time in jail for the cause. #womenstatues

Over the river to Violette Szabo on the Lambeth embankment. She was a British/French Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. Eventually captured, tortured and murdered in the concentration camps. #womenstatues

A living memorial! I passed a sign advertising the @florencemuseum on the South Bank near St Thomas's Hospital #womenstatues

This enormous bronze sculpture is dedicated to the memory of Mary Seacole. A British-Jamaican nurse, healer and businesswoman, she had no formal qualifications and was turned down by the nursing team going to the Crimea so she travelled there independently... #womenstatues

...and set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines to treat wounded servicemen. Largely forgotten for a century, this statue was unveiled in 2016 in front of St Thomas's Hospital. #womenstatues

I noticed the unfortunate name of the sculptor's company - Pangolin Editions. Those poor pangolins #womenstatues

Almost done for today! On Westminster Bridge is a tribute to Boudicca, queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. #womenstatues

Thomas Thornycroft worked on this sculpture - called "Boadicea And Her Daughters" from 1856 until shortly before his death in 1885, and his son continued the work. It was not erected in its current position until 1902. #womenstatues

Hopefully one day there'll be a statue of that other famous British Boadicea, probably in Smethwick (or Manchesterford) #womenstatues

Please join in if you know of a statue of a woman where you are. Real, named people only - no fictional characters, mythical Greek goddesses or nymphs! #womenstatues

Agatha Christie, writer, in St Martin's Lane. 2012. #womenstatues

Edith Cavell, nurse, executed for spying at dawn on 12 October 1912. She was nursing wounded WW1 soldiers. I've been to Edith Cavell Mountain in Alberta, Canada. #womenstatues

(1915 obvs. It even says so in the inscription).

This statue of Margaret Thatcher in London's Guildhall was decapitated shortly after it was unveiled in 2002 by Thatcher herself, proving that a statue of the UK's first female prime minister would be controversial. Repaired and resited in a more secure location. #womenstatues

The House of Commons used to have a rule that statues must be of dead people. It was relaxed or waived for this one of Margaret Thatcher in 2007. I think the head's all wrong? #womenstatues #margaretthatcher

(both images off the internet - not my own) #womenstatues

There are two statues of Catherine Booth in London - one in the Mile End Road and the other outside the Salvation Army training hall in Denmark Hill. Catherine Booth (née Mumford, 1829-1890) was the co-founder of The Salvation Army with her husband William Booth #womenstatues

Ada Salter (1866-1942) was one of the first women councillors in London and the first woman mayor in London, in Bermondsey. Social reformer, environmentalist, pacifist and Quaker, President of the Women's Labour League and President of the National Gardens Guild.

Ada Salter's daughter died of scarlet fever aged just 8. She's remembered in this playful figure facing her mother on the Thames embankment in Bermondsey. #womenstatues

Lady Henry Somerset née Lady Isabella Caroline Somers-Cocks (1851-1921) was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights. Memorial in Embankment Gardens. #womenstatues

In Christchurch Gardens off Victoria Street, a monument to women's suffrage, created in 1970. Incorporating the badge of the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women's Freedom League. #womenstatues

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Her statue sits atop the Victoria Palace Theatre near Victoria station. #womenstatues

Yet another statue of Queen Victoria stands in Victoria Square near Victoria station. She's a young woman in this statue, erected in 2007. There are two more statues of Queen Victoria within a mile. #womenstatues

The Queen Elizabeth Gates near Hyde Park Corner were constructed in 1993. Not a memorial or a statue but notable I suppose. I can't remember what they replaced but I remember the fuss when they were opened. #womenstatues

George II had Hyde Park's Serpentine created for Queen Caroline, 1683-1737. Caroline acted as queen regent four times, unprecedented at the time. Died of a strangulated bowel/hernia complication and the devastated king gave us a lovely lake in his sorrow. #womenstatues

Next, a memorial rather than a statue. The Princess Diana (1961-1997) Memorial Fountain was created in 2004 in Hyde Park. I vaguely remember some fuss over leaking in its early days but it's now a much loved feature of the park. #womenstatues

Queen Victoria outside Kensington Palace, her childhood home - where, aged just 18, she woke up to the news that her uncle had died. Sculpted by her fourth daughter Princess Louise and erected in 1893. It depicts Victoria aged 18, seated in her coronation robes. #womenstatues

Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) was a Welsh-born actress, the "best-known tragedienne" of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified". Memorial on Paddington Green. #womenstatues

Amy Jade Winehouse (1983-2011), singer and songwriter. Drank herself to death aged 27. Statue in Camden Market, north London. #womenstatues

Joan Littlewood (1914-2002), theatre director who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop. She has been called "The Mother of Modern Theatre". 2015 statue at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, E15. #womenstatues

Hopping over to Belfast, where last month I noticed this Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker (1992) by Irish sculptor Louise Walsh. Located on Great Victoria Street. Everyday objects adorn - maybe weigh down - the figures. #womenstatues

If you know of a statue or memorial to a female person - or any monument to women - please let me know and I'll try to visit, photograph, and find something out about them so they can be celebrated #womenstatues

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