Erection date: 2014
{On each of the 4 gate leaves:}
Southwark Park Act - 150 years
{On the railings either site of each pair of gates, left to right}
1864
2014
SE16, Southwark Park, carriageway
There are a pair of these gates on each side of the carriageway which bisects the Park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Park Act gates
The Park was created mainly from market gardens. More information at Histori...
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
"The splendid struggling mothers..." is surely a quote from something, perhaps written by Geraldine Mary at the time the Park was being p...
See Alpha Rail for a close-up photo of these lovely Art Deco gates during their restoration in 2013. "Significant changes were being made...
2019: We are grateful to Justin Barkham who pointed out that we had incorrectly transcribed the text on the shield as 'Memory and peace' ...
