Street art · London
Photo: Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0
Civic Pride (male lion)
By David Annand
Under a roaring flyover, a bronze lion stalks a traffic island like a forgotten guardian of the city gates — London's answer to Trafalgar Square's big cats, transplanted to concrete and commuter chaos.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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