Gordon's Statue and National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London Finish:20-pack January 1973 73-00189-002

January 1973 73-00189-002

Introduced in 1957 with a 3

and curious boys look into the open grave into which a man sprinkles earth from a spade he holds

showing the gate on fire during the Great Fire of London 1666 at the point when the walls of Ludgate Gaol fell

The Marquess of Salisbury

Gordon's Statue and National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London Finish:20-pack January 1973 73-00189-002Gordon's Statue and National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, 20th century. The statue commemorating General Charles George Gordon, killed at Khartoum in 1885, was erected in 1888 but was relocated to the Victoria Embankment in the 1950s. Construction of the National Gallery, designed by William Wilkins, began in 1837. In the 1870s, with the Gallery's collection growing too large for the building, an East Wing was added by Edward Middleton Barry.