Waterloo Place, London

Waterloo Place was begun in 1816 as a termination of John Nash's Regent Street, and named in honour of the battle in which Wellington defeated Napoleon the previous year. The northern end, seen here, was rebuilt between 1902 and 1925 with symetrical Portland stone elevations. The statue in the centre is the Guards Crimean Memorial by John Bell. Constructed from the melted down canon of Russian guns captured at Sebastopol it incorporates statues of Florence Nightingale and her staunch supporter in Parliament, Lord Sidney Herbert.