The Victorian City · event 3 of 7

1846

The Scott Monument is finished. Sixty-one metres of Gothic spire by George Meikle Kemp, a self-taught joiner who drowned in the Union Canal two years before completion.

The The Victorian City era

  1. 1828
  2. 1836
  3. 1846
  4. 1847
  5. 1861
  6. 1890
  7. 1920

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