This 6 tonne sculpture by Nic Fiddian-Green appeared at Marble Arch a couple of weeks ago."Losing your head" is nowdays about falling in love. Once though it meant having it chopped off, a common practice in France.
The English liked their fun to last a little longer, so hanging was the preferred entertainment, sorry, form of justice here in London. This area was the location of the once infamous Tyburn Tree where some 50,000 executions took place. Afterwards the hangman would sell the rope for 6 pence an inch.
