Edinburgh city centre is home to dozens of historic statues big and small, but our monument to the Duke of Wellington is definitely harder to miss than most.
Paying tribute to Wellington's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the equestrian statue, which depicts the Iron Duke on the back of a rearing horse, was inaugurated in 1852. It has stood atop its large plinth outside Register House at the east end of Princes Street ever since.
But while the bronze landmark has drawn many an admiring glance down the decades, it has also accumulated its fair share of dirty looks due to the fact it takes up so much room on the busiest stretch of pavement in Scotland.
