Crimean War Memorial and Chinese Bell Tower, Nottingham Arboretum
Introduction
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Crimean War Memorial and Chinese Bell Tower, Nottingham Arboretum
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 26 Jul 2019
Although styled as a war memorial, it does not refer to casualties but was essentially a glorification of the British Army during the Crimean War of 1854-5 and the Anglo-Chinese War of 1857-61. Two of the cannon were brought back from the battle of Sebastopol, the other two being cast for the monument to create symmetry. The tower houses a replica of the bell looted from Canton during the Anglo-Chinese War, the original having passed to the regimental museum in the 1950s. Designed by the Borough Surveyor M Ogle Tarbotton, erected 1862-3. Listed Grade II.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.961207
Longitude
-1.155557