Year 5 Trip To Trafalger Square

Year 5 Trip To Trafalgar Square

On 23 of September Trafalgar class went to a trip Trafalgar square first we walked to the barbican station we got of at Embankment. We had a short walk to the Trafalgar Square. When we got there with are groups we walking around and we all found something we like and sketched them I sketched the fountain with the national gallery behind. all of us did that then we showed them.

reporter: FatimaA Few Facts We Learned About In Our Trip:

1. The centrepiece of Trafalgar Square is Nelson’s Column, which was built to honor Admiral Horatio Nelson, who led the British to Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson’s Column is 169 ft 3 Inches tall. When they refurbished it in 2006, they discovered that it was actually 14 ft 6 inches shorter than previously thought.

2. The pedestal of Nelson’s Column is decorated with four bronze relief panels, each 18 feet square, which were cast from captured French guns. They depict the Battle of Cape St Vincent, the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Copenhagen and the Death of Nelson at Trafalgar.

3.If Hitler had successfully invaded Britain, he planned to relocate Nelson’s Column to Berlin as a war spoil.