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Person    | Female  Born 13/10/1925  Died 8/4/2013

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister: 1979 - 1990. Born Grantham. MP for Finchley: 1959 - 1992. A Marmite politician of the highest order - her death was greeted with a rare mix of immoderate panegyrics and gleeful celebrations.

2017: The proposal for a 10-foot statue in Parliament Square was cancelled due to the likelihood (near certainty) of vandalism.

2021: In the midst of a scandal about the costs of erecting the statue in Grantham, sculptor Mark Robla placed on the waiting plinth a sculptured severed head (Thatcher's) on a spike, saying that it saved the Council a fortune.

2022, 16 May: The reported: "A statue of Margaret Thatcher was egged within two hours of being placed in her home town". And by the next day someone had next to the statue selling eggs, at £10 each. Private enterprise at its finest - Thatcher would have approved.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Margaret Thatcher

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Nuclear Dawn mural

Created as a protest against cruise missiles. The bottom right hand corner sh...

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Riders of the Apocalypse

The mural features Thatcher, Reagan, Heseltine and Andropov, all astride crui...

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Eisenhower statue

Portland stone plinth. Bronze statue. Unveiled by Mrs Thatcher and Charles Pr...

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Millionth Tree - Victoria Embankment Gardens

This is the millionth tree of the Countryside Commission's Task Force Tree Pr...

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Thatcher's tree

This event took place 7 months after Thatcher's tearful departure from Downin...

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WPC Yvonne Fletcher memorial

The first memorial created by the Police Memorial Trust, it was unveiled by P...

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