Variable high tides
March 30th 1874
Joseph Giles - Warden
SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital
Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked is probably Trinity House. The BBC has a good page about London floodings.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
From Environment Agency: “In 1874, the tide in the Thames rose 4 feet 3½ inc...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
Marcus Stone, 1840 - 1921, artist, lived here, 1877 - 1921. English Heritage
Hillingdon, London Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, biologist, pharmacologist and Nobel prize winner for the discovery of penicillin, appoin...
Pujol lived here with his wife and son. We don't have the dates of their occupation but English Heritage has: "It was from 35 Crespigny G...
This plaque is no longer on display.
The plaque has the name as "Spier and Pond" but this should read "Spiers and Pond".
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