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It gave its name to an English pub, The Blind Beggar, in 1894. In 1900, the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green adopted a scene from the ballad to be depicted in their official arms. A depiction of the blind beggar has been depicted on the head of the beadle's staff since 1690. [5]
In some versions of the ballad, the beggar was an impoverished noble, Henry de Montfort. In the legend, de Montfort was wounded and lost his sight in the Battle of Evesham in 1265. He was nursed to health by a baroness, and together they had a child named Besse. He became the "Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green" and used to beg at the crossroads.
Blind Beggar and his Dog is a bronze statue of 1958, by the sculptor Elisabeth Frink, based on the famous ballad The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green.It stands in the enclosed garden of Tate House, a residential development for the elderly on the Cranbrook Estate in the London district of Bethnal Green.
This was followed by The Triumph of Peace, a Masque occasioned by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1749); his three-canto blank verse georgic on Agriculture (1753), originally intended as part of a longer work to be titled Public Virtue; The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (acted at Drury Lane 1739, printed 1741); and an ode, Melpomene (1751).
The Blind Beggar and his Dog in 2015. The Blind Beggar and his Dog is a bronze statue first displayed in 1958 by the sculptor Elisabeth Frink. It now stands in the enclosed garden of Tate House, a residential development for the elderly. [12] First sited on Roman Road, from where it can still be seen, it moved to the Tate Garden in 1963.
The area was once best known for the popular early modern ballad, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, which tells the story of a beautiful young woman named Bess, the daughter of a blind beggar. The earliest known explicit mention of the ballad is from 1624, but it was clearly well established by that date, as two other ballads of similar date ...
English: Blind Beggar and His Dog is a 1958 bronze sculpture by Elisabeth Frink.It is about eight feet, on high and stepped concrete plinth. The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green is a noted local mythological figure, dating back to at least the seventeenth century.
According to the legend related in the poem, a blind beggar living in Bethnal Green was in fact Henry de Montfort, eldest son of Simon de Montfort, having escaped from the field of the Battle of Evesham in 1265.