Plaque

Red Cross Garden 3

Inscription

This garden was laid out in 1887 by Julia Countess of Ducie.
God saw the earth and behold it was very good. Have we done our best to make it very good?

The quotation comes from Genesis 1:31. The question is an addition.

Site: Red Cross Garden (4 memorials)

SE1, Redcross Way, 50

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 3

Subjects commemorated i

Julia, Countess of Ducie

Wife of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, Third Earl of Ducie. There is no portrait and...

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Red Cross Garden

Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two r...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 3

Also at this site i

Octavia Hill - SE1

Octavia Hill - SE1

Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, an...

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Red Cross Garden 1

Red Cross Garden 1

The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph. Th...

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Red Cross Garden 2

Red Cross Garden 2

The roundel was created by a glass-making firm, James Powell and Son, after a...

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Nearby Memorials

Leslie Palmer

Leslie Palmer

W10, Tavistock Road, 69 & 70

The Henderson plaque is at number 69, (the yellow building on the left of the photograph) and Palmer's plaque is at number 70 (the buildi...

2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Sir Charles MacKerras

Sir Charles MacKerras

NW8, Hamilton Terrace, 10

Sir Charles MacKerras, CH, AC, CBE, 1925 - 2010, conductor and musicologist, lived here. The Public Memorials Appeal

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Patrick Macnee - Elstree and Borehamwood Station

Patrick Macnee - Elstree and Borehamwood Station

WD6, Allum Lane, Station forecourt

The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...

1 subject commemorated
PP - 3I - Selves

PP - 3I - Selves

EC1, Edward Street

This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Benjamin Geary VC

Benjamin Geary VC

SE24, Norwood Road, Brockwell Park

Under the beady eye of this impressive 2015 Escher-inspired mural by Phlegm.

War served | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator