London - After eight years of complex and expensive restoration , the scaffolding is about to come off the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. Removing all 140,000 feet of scaffolding will take four months.
The memorial was shrouded in plastic sheeting in 1990, when bits of mosaic and flakes of stone began to drop on the heads of passersby. The larger than life statue of Queen Victoria's consort, who died in 1861, has been regilded with two coats of gold leaf.
