King Edward VII statue in bronze outside Tooting Broadway tube station, sculptor L.F. Roselieb (1878–1934), erected 1911.

Edward VII statue stands outside which station? A weekend quiz for you and your family (via Travel with Angela Lansbury):

Yes, I could not get this wrong. I gave a talk on the kings and Queens of England to a Toastmasters speakers training meeting in Singapore at the time of the royal wedding. I had devised a memory aid for George V and George VI. George the Fifth in the First world war (FF) and George the Sixth in the Second World War (SS).

Edward VIII was the king who abdicated. Queen Victoria did not hold her son Edward VII in high esteem because she blamed him for the death of Albert. Dear Albert had gone to rescue Edward from visiting a lady, worse than philandering - oh dear, say no more. If you don't know, look it up.

So, if you feel prudish and disapproving like Queen Victoria, you can toot at Edward VII, mentally, only mentally, because tooting with car horns is not the done thing in the UK where we flash lights as silent signals in daytime as well as at night.

The exterior of Tooting Broadway station (which I suppose includes the statue) makes it to no. 79 on 150 great things about the Underground.

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