The memorial on... Highbury Place, London Middlesex England

The war memorial which dominates the beginning of Highbury Place commemorates not the First World War, but the Boer War - the bloody South African conflict ended some 11 years before the Great War began.

Nearly 100 Islington residents lost their lives in that conflict and the memorial is witness to their sacrifice.

Since last year, the small garden that surrounds the memorial have included with grasses and plants with a specifically South African theme including euphorbia, African lilies, and red hot pokers, native to South Africa.

The sculpture itself was designed by the Australian, Bertram Mackennal an artist most famous for designing the coinage and stamps bearing the likeness of George V.