image for illustration: Jubilee monument & fountain to Queen Victoria, Llandudno by Meirion, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
For 135 years, Queen Victoria gazed imperiously down on Llandudno Pier from her much-loved monument perch in the resort’s Happy Valley gardens… now police have are investigating the disappearance of her bronze bust, reports North Wales Live.
North Wales Live writes:
… It is presumed stolen and local representatives fear the bust may have been melted down already. The plinth on which the bust sat has also been damaged. Barriers have been erected around the Grade II-listed monument…
