Macabre remembrance commemorative statue situated on Philpot Lane has dual stories one happy and one sad from the great fire of London
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Smallest Statue London Philpot Lane VR England 1862
11 Philpot Ln Eastcheap Buildings, London
Sculpture supposedly commemorates the death of two workmen, who are said to have fallen from scaffolding either during the construction of the building in 1862, or during the construction of the nearby Monument to the Great Fire of London in the 1670s.
The story goes that the workmen were arguing over the theft of a sandwich, which was later revealed to have been taken by mice.
Gps Coordinates / 51.5108253,-0.0842601
Some versions of the story have both of them dying, others say that one pushed the other from the roof. Working on scaffolding either during the construction of the building in 1862 seems unlikely anything would've been erected in memory of the working classes. It was created in 1862 by Richard William Barnes and originally installed on the facade of the nearby Old Bell Tavern, which was demolished in 1875.
Some versions of the story have both of them dying, others say that one pushed the other from the roof.
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Gps Coordinates / 51.5107811,-0.0842846 / 51.5107819,-0.0843576 / 51.5108676,-0.0842811
Other sites closeby. Brabant Court is located on the western side of Philpot Lane. It contains one of the few remaining Georgian residencies left in the City of London, at No. 4. Built in 1710, it was restored in 2013 and furnished with 18th-century furniture.
London's smallest public statue, The Two Mice Eating Cheese, on a building near the junction with Eastcheap. Named after Sir John Philpot, Lord Mayor of London from 1378 to 1379.
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Gps Coordinates / 51.5109671,-0.0841711 / 51.5108729,-0.0842379 / 51.5108813,-0.0842263 / 51.5108454,-0.0842428
London Daily Mirror 1975 from curious readers, reads below.
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"OF MICE AND WORKMEN"
h.MATTHEWS, OF Dasset Road London SE27, asks:
"HAVE you anything in your little Black Book about a building somewhere in London which has plaster mice stuck on the front ? Apparently they were put there to commemorate the mice which stole the sand-wiches of the workmen who built it. This caused fights because the men accused each other of stealing."
"That's one version, but there is another that the mice on the site were simply made pets by the workmen who fed them. Whatever the truth, the building in question is in the city, at 23 Eastcheap, on the corner of Philpot Lane.
Built some hundred years ago as a warehouse, it is now offices, but it is threatened with demolition."
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The few above paragraphs are from Daily Mirror 11 March 1975 to give an insight of curious local readers, i'm sure curiosity of people who knew staring and others who didn't passing by eager to know what the attraction was, on some of the Panorama360s you see that scenario play out on some of those Panorama360s as some gaze upwards as others passby many centuries later.
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