Erection date: 1951
Collingham Garden
The use of this ground for the welfare of children for all time has been bequeathed under the will of John Cyril Lees Collingham who died on May 28th 1936.
Erected by the Governors of the Foundling Hospital 1951.
WC1, Brunswick Square, Coram Family
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
England's first home for abandoned children. Established in 1739 by Captain T...
The quotation is from Psalm 41, the King James Version. While at school, Shaftesbury, a Christian teenager, witnessed a pauper's funeral...
The base can be seen in our photo immediately behind the 'open book' which is the replacement memorial.
The plaque is in the dimly lit museum of Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Plaque unveiled, by Sandra Caron (her sister), Michael Winner, Petula Clark, Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson.
Red House, built in 1859 - 60 by Philip Webb, architect, for William Morris, poet and artist, who lived here 1860 - 1865. Greater London ...
