Talk:Monument to the Great Fire of London/Archive 1

Archive 1

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Maybe you smart guys can be more accurate than my memory.
I understand the Monument is hollow, like a cannon so it could be used as an observatory. Supposedly, there is a "secret" (well closed to tourists anyway) ornate basement.
My only cite for this is an old tourist magazine I read on one of my annual migrations.
-- unsigned by User:PaulinSaudi 17:46, 6 December 2003

Er... hollow. Well there is a staircase running up it. Does this make it hollow?

I seem to remember that the porters from Billingsgate used to have some kind of competition involving running the monument with crates of fish on their head. Does anyone else have any more info on this or did I dream it long ago?

-- Mintguy 18:13, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Location

I'm not sure but I think the tower is as far away from the fire's start point as it is tall. -- unsigned by 217.43.49.251 10:42, 28 June 2005.

Yes, if you were to lay the monument down and face it in the right direction, it would point to the start point of the Great Fire. -- 81.159.86.191 15:13, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Removing of Images

Astrotrain, can you please stop removing images from the article, if you have a problem with any image then please dicuss it here first.--padraig3uk 14:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Talkpage cleanup

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--BjKa (talk) 11:18, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

"the tallest isolated stone column in the world"

Obviously the Washington Monument is much taller. By what definition should this one be regarded as the record holder? --BjKa (talk) 11:25, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

It is a fair point. The source is reliable but that is not to say it is correct. The Monument is certainly the tallest isolated stone monumental column in the UK but perhaps not in the world. --TBM10 (talk) 15:30, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

The Washington Monument is an obelisk not a column. 80.176.88.21 (talk) 14:15, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

The Perry monunent is certainly a column, and it is much taller. Mangoe (talk) 01:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

The Lord Hill's Column in Shrewsbury is described as the tallest Doric column in England, but the Monument is taller. Confusion reigns! --TBM10 (talk) 09:43, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

The Lord Hill's Column is the tallest if you don't include the pedestal but do include the statue. --Gaskarth (talk) 13:42, 4 January 2018 (UTC)