Hanging around Euston

Here's Matthew Flinders and his cat Trim, outside Euston Station.  He was the first person to map the coast of Australia (which is what he's doing here). 

Looking up the statue, I found that it's quite recent - it was unveiled at Australia House in 1914, by Prince William, later moved inside the concourse of Euston Station, and now it's here in the open air.

I was quite pleased not to see the big silver blocky thing that I used to pass in previous years when using the station (apparently it's called Piscator, by Eduardo Paolozzi), but it may have been behind the scaffolding from some construction work that's going on near the taxi rank.

In the background is the takeaway place where the Young Man bought sushi for lunch.  I tend not to eat  much when I'm travelling, and the breakfast we'd had at the Wimpy bar was quite enough for me, so the Young Man said he felt he could eat sushi in front of me without feeling guilty!  I'm not a sushi fan.

I was quite happy to head for the Euston Tap as soon as it opened, to have a farewell drink, though - a light golden ale called Trinity from Redemption Brewery in Tottenham.

James Arrowsmith, Publisher and Erector of a Certain Notorious Statue

I almost never see my surname mentioned in history, so it was a bit of a surprise to be reading down a Twitter thread about the Colston statue in Bristol to find out who had been responsible for erecting it - a local publisher called James Arrowsmith!
JW Arrowsmith Ltd. was the company responsible for publishing famous works like Three Men in a Boat, Diary of a Nobody and Rupert of Hentzau. James was a friend of WG Grace. The company also published a lot of books on Bristol history.
And James was almost single-handedly responsible for the erection of the statue to Edward Colston, which he tried at first to fund by subscription. With a lot of effort, the committee eventually managed to raise only half of the cost of the statue, but it was put up anyway, and unveiled on "Colston Day", a local public holiday.
In 1920, Arrowsmith published a book on Edward Colston by HJ Wilkins, which detailed Colston's involvement with the Royal Africa Company, which transported slaves to the Americas. Colston was the Deputy Governor of the company.

A Proud Day for Manchester

Celebrations on Sunday at St Peter's Square, where the plinth for the Emmeline Pankhurst statue is going to be unveiled at 11am. Manchester author and singer Rosie Garland will be leading a rousing rendition of the March of the Women, in full suffragette dress, to mark the occasion.
The statue will show Emmeline Pankhurst giving a speech, facing towards the Free Trade Hall - like this:

The sculptor is Helen Reeves.