Wellington

Wednesday 18th June marked the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when armies commanded by Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher of Prussia defeated Napoleon Bonaparte,



I had thought of going into Glasgow to take a picture of the statue of Wellington (the one with the traffic cone on his head) to commemorate the occasion, then I remembered there was one in Falkirk town centre, so settled for that instead.


The statue of Wellington in Falkirk has actually been in the local news recently. A man on a drunken night out in July 2014 climbed on top of the statue and accidentally (or otherwise) decapitated the statue of the Duke. When later arrested he was ordered to pay for its restoration. A local funeral masonry company remodelled the head and it has now been re-attached to the rest of the statue, this time with an iron rod (for the Iron Duke, perhaps?) strengthening the link between head and body. Just a little local trivia.