Putney Gargoyles

Friday saw me hanging around a street corner in Putney waiting for Cylene to come and collect me for her birthday celebrations, and I spotted an interesting number of stone denizens on the buildings around. These are nice:

However I was very surprised to see what I was pretty sure were busts of Disraeli and the Earl of Salisbury adorning a row of shops along Putney Hill Road:

According to the Putney Society these date to 1887, but there's no indication who was responsible for them.