Yesterday it was announced on the news that the design for a memorial statue dedicated to nurse and Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole has been chosen.
Artist Martin Jennings created the winning sculpture, which will stand in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital in central London.
In 2004, the Jamaican-born woman was voted the greatest Black Briton of all time.
The Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal was set up to create a permanent reminder of the 19th Century nurse.
In 1854, Seacole approached the War Office asking to be sent as an army nurse to the Crimea where there was known to be poor medical facilities for wounded soldiers.
She was refused but funded her own trip to the Crimea where she established the British Hotel near Balaclava to provide comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers.
She also visited the battlefield, sometimes under fire, to nurse the wounded, and became known as "Mother Seacole".
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This is my own tribute to Mary Seacole I hope you like it
That's pretty amazing, and she got her own statue too!
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