The Devon County War Memorial of Haytor granite was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and remembers the fallen of World Wars 1 and 2. The dates shown show the first world war as 1914-1919 as Devon still had troops on the Russian front until 1919.

The quarries were re-opened specifically to mine the granite for this memorial. The winch gear that can still be seen in Haytor Quarries is most likely from this episode.

This Gallery is situated on the north side of Trafalgar Square. The present building was built in 1832 in the neo-classical style, giving the whole gallery a rather imposing air. Inside the austere atmosphere is heightened by vast amounts of marble, leather and wood.  The gallery, though has a reputation as one of the best art galleries in the country, if not the world. The National Gallery houses the National Collection of Paintings with the main focus being on western European art from the thirteenth century to 1900. This collection started off in 1824 with just 38 pieces, but now it holds more than 2,000 paintings. The Sainsbury Wing opened in 1991 and currently houses an excellent collection of Renaissance pieces, which are the highlight of the gallery. Some well-known artists that are represented at the National Gallery include Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya and da Vinci. There is also a pretty good collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings with works by Monet, Manet, Degas, Cezanne and Van Gogh, among others.

There are guided tours available, or a soundtrack on CD that you can take around with you. There is also a superb computer information centre, located in the Micro Gallery in the Sainsbury Wing, which allows you to design a personalised tour map. You select the pictures you want to see and the computer prints out a map for you to follow.

The National Gallery is open daily, but times vary so check in advance. Entrance is free.

National Gallery

The British Museum was founded in 1753 and contains world-famous collections of antiquities from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome, as well as Prehistoric and Romano-British, Medieval, Renaissance, Modern and Oriental collections; Prints and Drawings; Coins, Medals and Banknotes.

The museum collections are maintained both for exhibition and as a research resource for some 30,000 enquiries from professional academics, school-children, tourists each year. The Museum site covers 5.4 hectares. The main building has six main levels and a number of mezzanines - there are 94 permanent and temporary exhibition galleries displaying Museum objects covering some 18,415m. .

Parts of the museum were built from the granite hewn from the Hay Tor Quarries but finding out which parts is an impossible task. From a cursory scan and having the piss ripped out of me by the wife, the perimeter wall, gates and main steps are of Haytor Granite.

Ramsgate Harbour

Ramsgate Harbour

Having taken a look at the inner harbour at Ramsgate, the granite did come from Dartmoor but not Haytor. It is possible that the stone was bought from the Haytor Granite Company when owned by the Johnson Brothers.

Their granite was taken from Swell Tor, King Tor and Foggintor on Walkhampton Common on the western side of Dartmoor and was of inferior quality. They re-named their company The Hay Tor Granite Company as a deceptive marketing ploy to enhance their reputation.

Much of the harbour is built of a grey limestone, however the steps, edging and coping is of granite.

Covent Garden is now a bustling part of the capital with many street cafes, market stalls and steet performers. The performers range from Royal Academy classical musicians to anyone who has the nerve to stand up and become an entertainer. Covent Garden was originally designed by Inigo Jones as a residential square in the 1630's, the market buildings date from 1830 and are by Flower.

The Floral Hall was added in 1860 by EM Barry architect of the Royal Opera House (1858).

In 1974 the market moved to Nine Elms, but the area survived to become a flourishing new community,with a shopping centre, restaurants, London Transport Museum and Theatre Museum.

Haytor Granite makes up the flagstones, pillars and steps of the main market hall.

Covent Garden Market

The Hall is located at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street, NE of St. Paul's Cathedral, and opened in 1835. It is one of London's hidden treasures. The Hall is the third on this site, the Goldsmiths' Company having been located here since 1339. Little is known of the first Hall but the second was erected in 1634-6 and restored after the Great Fire of 1666.

This Hall remaimed for almost two hundred years, but was demolished in the late 1820s. The present Hall designed by Philip Hardwick, remains much as originally built, although there have been changes to changes to decor and use.

Goldsmiths Hall

The Hall narrowly escaped complete destruction when in 1941 a bomb exploded inside the south-west corner. A major refurbishment which was completed in 1990.

The present Fishmongers' Hall, at the northwest foot of London Bridge, was rebuilt by Roberts in 1830–33, and is the third of the Company's halls around this site.

The building is raised on a basement cased with Haytor Granite, and contains fire-proof warehouses. The river front has a balustraded terrace, and a Grecian-Ionic hexa-style and pediment. The east or entrance front is enriched by pillars and columns, and the arms of the Company Of Fishmongers.

Fishmonger's Hall

The entrance hall is separated from the great staircase by a screen of polished Aberdeen granite columns; and at the head of the stairs is Pierce's statue of Sir William Walworth a Fishmonger, who carries a dagger with which he stabbed Wat Tyler.

A pair of obelisks used to stand in the middle of Ludgate Circus. One of these was erected to the memory of Robert Waithman who made his fortune from the linen trade having opened his first shop nearby. He was also a Liberal MP for the City of London, and also Lord Mayor of London. After his death in 1833 his friends erected an obelisk.

Both obelisks have been removed, the one commemorating Waithman has been relocated just around the corner in Salisbury Square.

Ludgate Circus, mid C18th

Waithman Monument

William Pitt's staue is located in Hanover Square. Only the Pedastal is of Haytor Granite.

William Pitt Statue

Hanover Square was developed in the early C18th as a fashionable residential area, and was initially occupied mainly by Tory aristocrats. While a few of the C18th houses remain largely intact, most of the square has been reconstructed and is now almost entirely occupied by offices.

The pedestrian bronze statue of George IV was funded by public subscription under the chairmanship of Lord Meadowbank. It was sculpted by Sir Francis Chantry, and unveiled on 26 November 1831.

The statue was erected to commemorate the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in 1822, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott.

On closer inspection, it would appear that no Haytor Granite makes up any part of this statue or pedastal, the pedastal in fact appears to be Aberdeen Granite.