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Description: | The Havelock Memorial and Sebastopol Cannon on Building Hill, Mowbray Park, about 1900. This bronze statue by William Bennes of General Henry Havelock on a granite pedestal was unveiled on 21st May 1861. General Havelock was born at Pallion Hall in 1795. In 1857 he relieved the besieged City of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny and became a national hero. The cannon was one of many brought back from the Crimean War and placed in towns around Britain in 1857. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East events Sunderland | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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