Britannia ruled from the roof of the GPO Building. Credit: John Simpson from Beecroft purchased the statue when he discovered it unloved among bramble bushes at the Hornsby house auction in the ...

A 30ft (9.1m) wooden sculpture of Britannia has been set alight in an East Sussex village to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Three weeks of work and three lorry loads of wood went in to making ...

Mr Simpson said: “We both agreed the parts of Britannia should be put back together but I am not going to muck up my garden so that the statue is complete in his garden. It needs to be in the ...

A 30ft (9.1m) wooden sculpture of Britannia is set alight in an East Sussex village to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Britannia statue set on fire for Diamond Jubilee - BBC News We've updated ...

Like Hollywood itself, the Oscar statue’s sparkling exterior conceals its no less meritorious, but certainly less glamorous interior: britannia metal. Or at least that was the case until this ...

A familiar profile along the Thames-side skyline in London is the sooty statue of Britannia, bearing a trident, atop the Victorian baroque pile that is the Tate Gallery. Britannia grasps her ...