Erection date: 8/1/1908
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. This stone was laid by Samuel Henry Dauncey, Esq., Vice-President. January 8th 1908.
SW3, Pond Place, 23
There are two stone plaques either side of the entrance, low on the wall, and two, rather classier, plaques in the entrance lobby. Reading left to right: Brass, Wright, Dillon, McCurrey, Dauncey, Anscombe.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chelsea Temperance Society - Dauncey
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chelsea Temperance Society - Dauncey
Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Chelsea Temperance Society - Dauncey
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. To the memory of William Henry Ansc...
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. To the memory of John Henry Brass, ...
To the memory of Hon. Conrad A. Dillon, who was connected with this society f...
To the memory of James & Margaret McCurrey, early & devoted workers i...
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. This stone was laid by Henry J. Wri...
{on the top, round plaque:} LCC Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 - 1882, poet & painter, born here. {on the lower, oblong plaque:} Ta...
This extension opened in 1938.
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
It's odd that the plaque is placed here rather than at the almshouses at the other end of the road. Possibly the Count had a house here,...
Plaque unveiled by Christie's son.
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