{"id":430055,"date":"2026-02-17T07:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:51:07","slug":"lord-byron-statue-to-be-moved-from-park-lane-to-hyde-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430055\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Byron statue to be moved from Park Lane to Hyde Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A memorial statue of the 19th Century poet Lord Byron marooned on an inaccessible traffic island on Park Lane for decades and left to deteriorate is to be restored and moved to a new home in Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After being restored the statue and plinth will be placed at a more visible location near Victoria Gate in the central London park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Grade II listed bronze sculpture, created in 1880 by Richard Claude Belt, was first erected in Hamilton Gardens, originally part of Hyde Park, but a three-lane dual carriageway built in the 1960s on Park Lane made it hard to reach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current Lord Byron, president of The Byron Society, said the group was &#8220;thrilled that work is finally about to start&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A memorial statue of the 19th Century poet Lord Byron marooned on an inaccessible traffic island on Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-430055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}