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at Bethnal Green, while his beautiful daughter Besse is wooed by four suitors, three of whom are discouraged by her father's seeming inability to provide a dowry. The fourth recognises Besse's innate nobility and marries her anyway, whereupon he receives a dowry from her still-wealthy father. Bethnal
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bears the images of Besse and her blind father and the legend is commemorated in many place names in the area, including that of
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The statue is in bronze, and is 8 feet high. It stands on an "elevated fountain (plinth) of overlapping stone sections".
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and has many variants. One version tells of an English knight, Simon de Montford, who is blinded at the
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describes the statue as "appealingly vulnerable and serious". It was given a
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Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae)
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Post-war reconstruction of Bethnal Green, which had suffered severely in
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
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Upton Park—with Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson
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Sculpture of a standing man and a dog
Elisabeth Frink
Cranbrook Estate
Bethnal Green
Coordinates
51°31′47″N 0°02′42″W / 51.5298°N 0.0449°W / 51.5298; -0.0449
Listed Building
bronze
Elisabeth Frink
The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green
Cranbrook Estate
Bethnal Green
Grade II* listed structure
Tudor times
Battle of Evesham
alms
coat of arms
The Blind Beggar
Whitechapel Road
the Blitz
Berthold Lubetkin's
Tecton Group
Elisabeth Frink
Pevsner
Grade II* heritage listing
"Blind Beggar and His Dog – Hidden London"
"The story of the blind beggar ballad"
Romford Recorder
"At The Blind Beggar In Whitechapel – Spitalfields Life"

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