Commemorating the devastating floods of January 31st 1953. In memory of more than 2,100 lives lost in countries around the North Sea. This event led to the development and construction of the Thames Barrier and associated flood defences protecting London, its people and property.
Environment Agency
SE18, Unity Way, Thames Barrier cafe
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Floods
From Thamesweb: "In January 1953, the east coast of England was devastated by...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Floods
When Ben was a child his family lived at number 1 Pilgrim's Lane, 1904-6. His time at 2b was during the 1970s and 80s.
Palace Theatre - Stage Entrance The world's greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors.
Greater London Council Mustapha Reschid Pasha, 1800 - 1858, Turkish statesman and reformer, lived here as Ambassador in 1839.
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
Historian Sir David Cannadine, and Frances Spalding, Fry's biographer, were present at the unveiling.
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