Comments on: The Percy Lion

By: A Picture Within a Frame « Cherie’s Place

A Picture Within a Frame « Cherie’s Place — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:55:26 +0000

[...] out over the countryside.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:31:59 +0000

Just speaking as a saw

By: Phidelm

Phidelm — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:13:49 +0000

Fascinating – and can’t offer any explanations; but the lion gives the first landscape pic an entirely surreal quality – love it (but not the idea of the umbrella )!

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:09:56 +0000

I have tried hard to find out what happened to the tail by searching on Google. But I have been unable to find anything about it.

I remember what the tail should look like from when I last visited in 2007. Unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of it that time.

Here is a link to a photo on flickr that was taken from a similar perspective as my close up.

It looks like the stone has fallen away from the tail.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:11:05 +0000

Or…looking a bit closer….is that a bit of broken off tail near his bottom? And has someone stuck a piece of iron railing into the stump to extend it? I bet the original tail got knocked off, fell in the river and was never found.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:05:40 +0000

As an engineer, I noticed straight away that the ‘tail’ was, or looked, telescopic. I tell you what I think. Totally unfounded, but I would bet that it came from somewhere else. Statues were always being relocated. Swanage in Dorset is littered with statues and stonework recovered from London. However back to the lion. I think he came from a place high up, on a roof, or over an arch, and for safety reasons he was anchored back to the wall behind him. When he was relocated, the supporting rod went with him.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:29:58 +0000

Rocky seems very sensible and I don’t blame him for not wanting to pose with the umbrella

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:29:08 +0000

It makes a change for the obligatory scaffolding which seems to be breeding everywhere. Both challenging for getting a decent photograph!

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:13:08 +0000

I cannot understand why the lion’s tail is so sculptured. “It’s not natural” said Rocky when I asked him to model with my BMW umbrella!

By: MTG

MTG — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:28:09 +0000

The obligatory encounter is known in the Tourist Trade as ‘Helluva Percy filth in your face’.