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Title: Pedestal for King Alfred's statue travelling through the town [Go to resource]
Description: This shows the granite pedestal block for King Alfred's Statue being pulled down the High Street by a traction engine on its way to the Broadway from the railway station. The granite came from the Penryn Quarry in Cornwall and this pedestal block weighed 45 tons. Reference: Winchester Scrapbooks. Vol 4. p.16-57. Copy photograph by John Brimfield. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council Subjects: statue
building
traction engine
street
costume
King Alfred
High Street
construction
graniteTemporal: start=1901-01-01; end=1901-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: Copied by: Brimfield, John Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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