Image ID: 43184

Chinese Bell, Arboretum, Nottingham, c 1900

Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

Arboretum
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
England

The Pagoda was designed in 1857 by Marriott Ogle Tarbotton as a war memorial and built in 1862. The bell was looted by British troops from a temple in Canton during the Anglo-Chinese war (Opium War) of 1857-61 and presented to the town of Nottingham. In 1956 the pagoda was partly demolished and the bell was moved to the regimental museum in Preston.Two of the Cannons were captured at Sebastopol, Crimean War 1854-55, the other two are replicas. 

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