Erection date: 8/1/1908
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. This stone was laid by Henry J. Wright, Esq., 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 - Wright
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chelsea Temperance Society - Wright
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 - Wright
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. To the memory of William Henry Ansc...
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. To the memory of John Henry Brass, ...
Chelsea Temperance Society, founded 1837. This stone was laid by Samuel Henry...
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...
The plaque, as well as having rather peculiar punctuation gets the year of death wrong but only by 2 days, so understandable.
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Note that the bomb is not actually mentioned on the memorial.
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