Erection date: 2011
Herbert Morrison, 1888 - 1965, statesman, Lewisham M.P. 1945 - 1959, architect of London democracy.
Lewisham
The plaque was originally installed in the old library in Downham.
BR1, Moorside Road, 7 - 9
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Herbert Morrison - Bromley
Labour politician. Born at 240 Ferndale Road, Brixton (from Oxford Dictionary...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Herbert Morrison - Bromley
The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Bor...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Herbert Morrison - Bromley
Downham Health & Leisure Centre officially opened by Steve Bullock, the M...
2013: The ground floor is occupied by the Shooting Star pub, the upper floors are residential.
Our thanks to our deciphering-of-difficult-to-read-inscriptions consultant, John Hartley, without whom we would be reporting that Emma Co...
We are guessing that the plaque was fixed to the oblong section of wall that you can see in our photo, above the head of the seated person.
The erection date differs from the date on the plaque. We have found other cases where this occurs - the unveiling can get delayed for al...
Lived in Hertford Street near (Old) Park Lane in the 1870s. Married but possibly a widow. Did not approve of the opening up of Hamilton Place but still gave money for the Poets' Fountain to be erec...
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
