A London tour guide maps eight easy-to-miss miniature public sculptures, from the 1862 Philpot Lane Mice to a brick-sized gallery on Brick Lane unveiled April 2026.
Key Takeaways
Philpot Lane Mice (built 1862) appear on The Knowledge exam for Black Cab Drivers; two mice over a stolen-cheese legend.
Rick Buckley installed 35 nose casts across London in 1997; only five Soho Noses survive today, identity revealed in 2012.
Marchmont Street pavement tokens reference real 18th-century objects left by mothers at the Foundling Hospital, which took in ~27,000 children over 200 years.
Tracey Emin’s bronze mitten “Baby Things” (2008) hangs on railings outside the Foundling Museum; easy to miss beside the Thomas Coram statue.
London’s sole Stolperstein, in Golden Square, commemorates Ada Van Danzig, murdered at Auschwitz on 14 February 1943.
