The figures Lady of Waltham Forest and Lady of Tower Hamlets are based on the heraldic crests of the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
The boroughs, as areas of administrative control, were created in 1965 and the figures play with the idea of creating a false sense of history by giving the boroughs a new fictional historical figurehead. They resemble figures of medieval saints, holding and wearing symbolic items that refer to the stories of their creation and their geographical location.