London, UK. 30th June, 2016. A memorial statue of nurse Mary Seacole is unveiled in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital. Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War in the 19th Century. The statue's completion follows a 12-year campaign which raised £500,000 to honour her. The statue, which will face the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, has been designed by Martin Jennings. Credit: claire doherty/Alamy Live News
London, UK. 30th June, 2016. A memorial statue of nurse Mary Seacole is unveiled in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital. Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War in the 19th Century. The statue's completion follows a 12-year campaign which raised £500,000 to honour her. The statue, which will face the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, has been designed by Martin Jennings. Jennings who also created the Women of Steel statue in Sheffield, and is working on the statue of George Orwell, to be erected at the BBC’s offices in central London. Some £240,000 of funding for the statue was granted by the government, using money it fined from bankers involved in the LIBOR-rigging scandal. In 2004 she was voted the most influential black Britain.© claire doherty/Alamy Live News
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