Flowers, mostly artificial, attached to railings below the memorial to Sir William Wallace, a plaque on the wall of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield, City of London.

According to the plaque, Wallace was a ‘Scottish patriot born at Ellerslie, Renfrewshire, circa 1270 A.D. who from the year 1296 fought dauntlessly in defence of the country’s liberty and independence in the face of fearful odds and great hardship being eventually betrayed and captured brought to London and put to death near this spot on the 23 August 1305.’

Photographed April 2026.