Plaque

(lost) Geoffrey Barkington

Erection date: 2018

Inscription

{Plaque on the bench:}
Here lies Geoffrey Barkington of Houndsditch, 10th December 2003 to 16th September 2017, aged 98 dog years.
May he rest in peace.

The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. They are the result of a 2018 design competition organised by the London Festival of Architecture, the City of London Corporation and Cheapside Business Alliance.

This bench was designed by Patrick McEvoy, who describes its creation and demise, with photos, in the January 2025 RIBA Journal. The benches were always intended to be temporary but when this little park was redeveloped in 2024 there was a plan for the Barkington bench to be reinstalled. However the Council ‘recycled’ it instead (aka crushed it to rubble).

Site: Geoffrey Barkington (1 memorial)

EC2, Houndsditch, Jubilee Gardens

This park is an appropriate location for a dog's grave. The name of Houndsditch derives from a ditch that ran outside part of the London wall, known for the disposal of waste, and especially deceased dogs.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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