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Opening of the British Library

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Erection date: 25/6/1998

Inscription

This building was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, 25 June 1998.

This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.

Site: British Library memorials (8 memorials)

NW1, Euston Road, The British Library

All the sculptures are inside the main building.

See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.

A plaque near the 4 busts in their brick roundels describes them as "the founders".

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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British Library

16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening i...

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Queen Elizabeth II

Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...

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Anne Frank - bust

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Dr Walther Model von Thunen

Bust

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Sir Hans Sloane - British Library

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.

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Sir Joseph Banks - British Library

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.

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Sir Robert Cotton

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757.

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