City and Midland Bank - WW2
E14, Canada Square, 8
Between the two lit sections is a bronze wreath with a large V made of a tasselled ribbon draped across the centre - all in bronze. It is...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Streatham civilian war memorial
SW16, Streatham High Road, Garden of Rememberance, Streatham Common North
"Grief has no boundaries" is a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra. The information board defines the scope for this memorial: "people ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Streatham war memorial
SW16, Streatham High Road, Garden of Rememberance, Streatham Common North
The quotation comes from Binyon's 1914 poem, ‘For the Fallen’. The memorial must have been renovated in 2010.
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Bombs 7/7/05 - Tavistock Square
WC1, Tavistock Square
All the text is turned sideways, so it avoids being upside down, whether viewed from inside or outside the garden. This memorial, while s...
15 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Sharpeville Massacre
SW2, Effra Road, Windrush Square
{On the large plaque with an image of protesters on a map of Africa:} Sharpeville 21st March 1960 "They died so others may live" {On the...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Woolwich Army Ordnance Department war memorial
SE18, Carriage Street, 37
{Beneath the Board of Ordnance badge with the motto 'Sua Tela Tonanti' (To the warrior his arms), and between two soldiers with bowed hea...
War dead | WW1
67 subjects commemorated
67 subjects commemorated
Lewisham Victoria Cross memorial
SE13, Lewisham High Street
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewisham and nearby areas.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Last V2 rocket in Kingston upon Thames
KT2, Park Road, Corner of King's Road
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: four women and one 7-year-old girl.
Civilian war dead | WW2
12 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
12 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Croydon Minster war memorial - cross
CR0, Church Street
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
2 subjects commemorated
Harrow on the Hill war memorial
HA1, Lowlands Road
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the plinth. Many of these are too weather-beaten to read so we hav...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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