J is for Jumping

Two Pupils statue, King's Road, London - 4, by Cybermyth13.

The statue of a boy jumping over a bollard.

Part of the Two Pupils statue by Allister Bowtell (1940-2006), made in 2002. The statue representing two pupils from c1814 and commemorates the Royal Military Asylum (renamed The Duke of York's Royal Military School in 1892) which occupied the site from 1803-1909. The statue is liocated just off the King's Road near Sloane Square.

Allister Bowtell: "...a pupil in about 1820, leap-frogging over a Chelsea bollard, trying to impress a girl sitting on a plinth who is pretending not to see him."

J in Conor's A-Z.