Waterloo Memorial (other)
Waterloo Memorial may refer to: * Waterloo Memorial, or Wellington's Column, in Liverpool, England * Waterloo Memorial Arena, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada * Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada See also * List of monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington * Waterloo-Tor, in Osnabrück, Germany *Waterloo Monument The Waterloo Monument near Ancrum in the Scottish Borders is a 150-foot tower, built between 1817 and 1824 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

Waterloo Memorial
Wellington's Column, or the Waterloo Memorial, is a monument to the Duke of Wellington standing on the corner of William Brown Street and Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History After the Duke's death in 1852, in common with other cities, Liverpool decided to erect a monument to celebrate his achievements. A committee was established to organise public subscriptions, but the money was slow to come in. A competition was set up in 1856 to find a designer for the column, and this was won by the architect Andrew Lawson of Edinburgh. There were further delays while a suitable site was found, with sites at the top of Duke Street and Bold Street, in front of the Adelphi Hotel and Prince's Park being considered before the eventual location was settled on. In 1861 a second competition, this time for the statue of the Duke, was won by George Anderson Lawson, brother ...
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Waterloo Memorial Arena
The Waterloo Memorial Arena was an arena located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1947 and primarily used by the Waterloo Siskins junior B hockey team, although it was also once briefly home to the Waterloo Hurricanes major junior team in the Ontario Hockey League. The arena's roof was deemed structurally unsafe in 1987 and much of the building was demolished, although the grandstands, ice surface, and front facade and dressing rooms remained. The ice was then enclosed in an inflatable vinyl bubble. The arena was made redundant by the 1993 opening of the Waterloo Recreation Complex, although it stayed open until 2001, when it was finally torn down. The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics currently occupies the site. History Plans for an arena in the downtown area were completed by 1938, with funding of $70,000 arranged through a debenture and subscriptions and donations. The selected location was a former garbage dump near Silver Lake. After the start of th ...
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Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex
The Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex is a recreation facility in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Father David Bauer Drive, west of Uptown. The complex contains the Sun Life Financial Arena, a 4,132-seat multi-purpose arena that is home to the Waterloo Siskins and the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks hockey teams, the Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks Major Series Lacrosse team, and the Swimplex, a 30m pool that was the city's first municipally-owned indoor pool. Construction of the $21 million facility began in December 1991 and the Rec Complex opened in September 1993. The facility was described as the "largest and most expensive project in the city's history". While under construction, the site was selected for the 1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, a Canadian women's curling championship. It was called the Waterloo Recreation Complex until May 2002, when ''Memorial'' was added after the city closed the Waterloo Memorial Arena. The building honours the 69 Waterloo resi ...
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List Of Monuments To Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington
The following is a list in chronological order of monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), a leading British political and military figure of the 19th century, particularly noted for his defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815: List of monuments * A monumental column and statue in his birthplace in Trim, County Meath, Ireland (1817) * Wellington Monument, London, on Park Lane, London; a colossal bronze statue of Achilles by Richard Westmacott (1822) * Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner, London, built to a design by Decimus Burton (1825–1827) * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, City of London, by Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1844) This equestrian statue has "Erected June 16, 1844" inscribed into its plinth. * Wellington Monument, Old Woodhall Road,  Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, a column with bust on top (1844) * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow, by Carlo Marochetti (1844). The Royal Exchange Square, Queen ...
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Waterloo-Tor
Waterloo-Tor (English: ''Waterloo Gate'') is a war memorial in Osnabrück, Germany, commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Along with its surrounding area the Waterloo-Tor is usually referred to as “Heger Tor” by residents of Osnabrück; the name “Waterloo-Tor” is barely used by locals. History A large number of soldiers from Osnabrück fought at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 under British high command, as part of the city’s territorial army regiments, its light field battalion or the King’s German Legion. In 1816 a local resident, Gerhard Friedrich von Gülich, had donated 1,000 thalers to set up a memorial honouring his fellow citizens who had fought. The Waterloo-Tor was designed by Johann Christian Sieckmann (1787-1861) at the behest of Gülich; it was built along the Heger Tor wall in 1817. Its appearance resembles that of both a triumphal arch and a fortification, as parts of the Heger Tor – the city’s historic fortification which had been knock ...
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