Mick's Monopoly challenge

          Although Lord Horatio Nelson died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, it took a further 32 years to form a committee to decide how to honour him. So work on his column wasn’t started until 1840. It was completed three years later. To this day, Trafalgar Square is still a work in progress with no permanent statue on the ‘fourth plinth’. But at least they’ve got rid of most of the pigeons whose droppings corroded the stonework.  A Christmas tree  has been donated to the square by Norway since 1947 as a token of gratitude for Britain's support during World War II.                           Laurence Olivier, Peter Finch, Royal Doulton Toby Jug     The paws of the four lions were modelled on a domestic cat after the lion’s corpse used by designer Sir Edwin Landseer began to decompose. Their backs are also wrong as they are convex. They should be concave as illustrated ...