Editing Harold Wilson (section)

===Statues and other tributes===
[[File:Harold Wilson statue.jpg|thumb|upright|Statue in St George's Square, [[Huddersfield]]]]

A portrait of Harold Wilson, painted by the Scottish portrait artist [[Cowan Dobson]], hangs today at University College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-right-honourable-sir-harold-wilson-19161995-lord-wilson-of-rievaulx-fellow-prime-minister-19641970-19741976-223862|title=The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson (1916–1995), Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, Fellow, Prime Minister (1964–1970 & 1974–1976)|publisher=[[Art UK]]|access-date=28 March 2019|archive-date=8 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708041817/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-right-honourable-sir-harold-wilson-19161995-lord-wilson-of-rievaulx-fellow-prime-minister-19641970-19741976-223862|url-status=live}}</ref> Two statues of Harold Wilson stand in prominent places. The first, unveiled by the then prime minister [[Tony Blair]] in July 1999, stands outside [[Huddersfield railway station]] in St George's Square, Huddersfield. Costing £70,000, the statue, designed by sculptor [[Ian Walters]], is based on photographs taken in 1964 and depicts Wilson in walking pose at the start of his first term as prime minister. His widow, Mary requested that the eight-foot-tall monument not show Wilson holding his famous pipe as she feared it would make the representation a caricature.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/390348.stm |title=UK PoliticsPipeless Wilson immortalised in bronze |work=[[BBC News]] |date=15 April 2010 |access-date=1 October 2010 |archive-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810015132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/390348.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>

A block of high-rise flats in Huddersfield is named after Wilson.{{Cn|date=February 2025}}

In September 2006, [[Tony Blair]] unveiled a second bronze statue of Wilson in the latter's former constituency of [[Huyton]], near [[Liverpool]]. The statue was created by Liverpool sculptor, Tom Murphy, and Blair paid tribute to Wilson's legacy at the unveiling, including the [[Open University]]. He added: "He also brought in a whole new culture, a whole new country. He made the country very, very different".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23367944-blairs-tribute-to-harold-wilson.do |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912034350/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23367944-blairs-tribute-to-harold-wilson.do |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2012 |title=Blair's tribute to Harold Wilson |work=Evening Standard |location=London |date=15 April 2010 |access-date=1 October 2010}}</ref>

Also in 2006, a street on a new housing development in [[Tividale]], West Midlands, was named Wilson Drive in honour of Wilson. Along with neighbouring new development Callaghan Drive (named after [[James Callaghan]]), it formed part of a large housing estate developed since the 1960s where all streets were named after former prime ministers or senior parliamentary figures.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}