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From The Fall’s City Hobgoblins:

So Queen Victoria
Is a large black slug in Piccadilly, Manchester

Click on the thumbnail (right) to see the large black slug in question - Edward Onslow Ford’s Queen Victoria Monument in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens (a 2 minute walk from Station Approach).

The 1901 (also the year of Onslow Ford’s death) Grade II listed monument is notable in that, unlike more modern statues, makes no attempt to conceal its subject’s flaws.

City Hobgoblins is featured on The Fall compilation Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology, available at Amazon.