- In July 2006, DBR held a dinner party at the top of Nelson’s Column to celebrate the end of the monumental conservation project.
- Lord Admiral Horaio Neslon is a great British naval hero. Nelson's Column is a memorial produced after his victory and unfortunate death at the battle of Trafalgar.
- Nelson's Column rises majestically in the center of the square. A statue of G. Nelson stands proudly at the top of the famous column.
- On 13 April 1995 Johnny Dawes free-climbed Nelson's Column with Noel Craine, Jerry Moffat and Simon Nadin, and graded the climb as "E6 6b/5a".
- The building of Nelson’s Column in London’s Trafalgar Square, began on 30 September 1840 and completed in 1843.
- From the bottom of the first step to the tip of Nelson’s hat, the height of Nelson’s Column is 51.5m tall. But for a long time, it was quoted to be 56.4m tall.
- Around the base of Nelson’s Column are bronze panels showing Nelson in various acts of derring-do in four major battles, including the one that killed him in 1805.
- But how long have you spent really contemplating that spiritual centre of London, Nelson's Column? Not a lot? Well then here's your Londonist landmark lesson.
- The height of the Nelson column is 167 feet (51 meters).The bronze leaves of the acanthus adorn the top of the Corinthian column.