Erection date: 1854
The foundation stone was laid by T. B. Simpson, Treasurer to the Commissioners for Lighting the West Division of Southwark. The ceremony was ‘followed by an excellent dinner at the Bridge House Hotel’. The Tower was completed that same year, except for the statue for which funds were never found.
Site: Wellington Clock Tower - lost (1 memorial)
SE1, Borough High Street
As shown on the section of Borough High Street between St Thomas Street and London Bridge used to be named Wellington Street. The much-admired Duke of Wellington had died in 1852 so the street was given his name and a stone tower was erected on the street in 1854. The lower section was used as a telegraph station.
The tower became an obstruction to the ever-increasing traffic using the bridge so it was removed (by George Burt of Mowlem) in 1867, transported to Swanage and reassembled there in 1868, between the pier and the lifeboat station. The clock which had not kept good time in London (possibly due to the traffic) did not find its way to Swanage. The spire was taken down in 1904. And the statue shown in the drawing never existed except in the designer's mind's eye.
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