In front of the imposing Victorian civic centre in Leamington is a majestic white marble statue of Queen Victoria herself on a substantial granite plinth.
Dashing past today when running a few errands in the town centre, I spotted a small plaque which I had never noticed before. Of course I had to stop and have a look..
As you see it commemorates the fact that a German bomb in 1940 shifted this massive stone by one inch on its plinth and you can just about see that shift in the picture too, so it must have been decided that it should not be shifted back into place!
Poor Queen Victoria! Quite ironic when you consider that Prince Albert was German!
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