Leonard Bentley
Buckingham Palace
A late 1920s postcard published by Walter Scott of Bradford showing the view, looking north, of the Queen Victoria Memorial through the Australia Gate This part of the gate is on the eastern footway of Spur Road. The stone piers of the gate were carved by Derwent Wood a famous Victorian and Edwardian sculptor and a Royal Academician. The gates were paid for and donated by the Government of Australia but made in England by the Bromsgrove Guild in Worcestershire. Shown on this part of the gate are the Red Lion symbol of Tasmania, the Piping Shrike of South Australia and the Black Swan of Western Australia, the gates were installed in 1908 as part of the Aston Webb Improvements around Buckingham Palace which included The Mall, Admiralty Arch and the Queen Victoria Memorial.
Buckingham Palace
A late 1920s postcard published by Walter Scott of Bradford showing the view, looking north, of the Queen Victoria Memorial through the Australia Gate This part of the gate is on the eastern footway of Spur Road. The stone piers of the gate were carved by Derwent Wood a famous Victorian and Edwardian sculptor and a Royal Academician. The gates were paid for and donated by the Government of Australia but made in England by the Bromsgrove Guild in Worcestershire. Shown on this part of the gate are the Red Lion symbol of Tasmania, the Piping Shrike of South Australia and the Black Swan of Western Australia, the gates were installed in 1908 as part of the Aston Webb Improvements around Buckingham Palace which included The Mall, Admiralty Arch and the Queen Victoria Memorial.