Unfortunately Grey Street wasn’t at its best when I visited. It was shrouded with scaffolding!
The inscription on the base of Grey’s monument reads as follows:
THIS COLUMN WAS ERECTED IN 1838
TO COMMEMORATE
THE SERVICES RENDERED TO HIS COUNTRY BY
CHARLES EARL GREY K.G.
WHO, DURING AN ACTIVE POLITICAL CAREER OF
NEARLY HALF A CENTURY
WAS THE CONSTANT ADVOCATE OF PEACE
AND THE FEARLESS AND CONSISTENT CHAMPION OF
CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
HE FIRST DIRECTED HIS EFFORTS TO THE AMENDMENT
OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN 1792,
AND WAS THE MINISTER
BY WHOSE ADVICE, AND UNDER WHOSE GUIDANCE,
THE GREAT MEASURE OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
WAS AFTER AN ARDUOUS AND PROTRACTED STRUGGLE
SAFELY AND TRIUMPHANTLY ACHIEVED
IN THE YEAR 1832.
‘Earl Grey’ eh? Did he have anything to do with Tea Drinking?
To be honest I haven’t tried the tea, so I don’t even know if it’s spell’d the same.
We have a Gray’s Monument here in south Bucks at Stoke Poges. It’s to his ‘Elegy written in a Country Churchyard’.
Cheers…..B
He is indeed the Earl of the Tea. I have tried it and much prefer English breakfast tea
the scaffolding is a pity but i like the atmosphere in those shots.
The city has a wonderful atmosphere
Just had some Earl Grey not long ago. Had English Breakfast this morning. Like them both at the right time of day. Earl Grey, methinks, is an afternoon tea type of tea.
I never quite got into the taste of Earl Grey tea or some of the other subtle tea blends. A good English Breakfast tea is the one that always works for me.
How do you fit in all these breaks? You must be away most weekends! How wonderful!
My life is a bit of a whirlwind at the moment. I need to find time for me
I can’t tell you many times I read that inscription in my youth not understanding a word of it
.. all I knew was lie a King of the North ! Breakfast tea for me … sorry Charles.
I feel upset for you with the amount of scaffolding there as I can honestly say that I have never seen so much of it. You caught an interesting viewpoint with The 1900s Emerson listed building on the left (now Waterstones) and the 1990s Monument Shopping mall (closed for updating to see more use). It is interesting for the visitor to see the architecture surrounding the monument additionally with the Edwardian Central Arcade and the 1970s Eldon Square shopping centre door.
I am used to scaffolding, it seems to follow my around. For example I have never ever seen the Notre Dame de Paris without scaffolding and I have visited it many times over the years…