Half Nelson

Mr Toad had major van trouble today so was a bit down in the dumps as he couldn't finish a job he was doing, so we went over to Llanfairpwll down to the Menai straits by the Britannia bridge where this statue of Nelson lives gazing across the water, you can only see his back view unless your in a boat.

He was sculptured in 1874 by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget a son of the 1st Marquis of Anglesey & bears the words "fell at Trafalgar 1805". I always thought it was a strange place to have a monument to Nelson but apparently it was used as a navigational aid to sailors on the Menai Straits of which Nelson was supposed to have said was "one of the most treacherous stretches of sea in the world" and also to commemorate 55 Anglesey men who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar.