Near this spot on Sunday 20th August 1989 the pleasure boat Marchioness was in collision with another vessel and sank with the loss of 51 lives.
SE1, Queen's Walk
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows:
Royal Festival Hall
National Theatre - this one,
London Eye.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marchioness at National Theatre
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with ...
The plaque has a metal post immediately in front of it, making it impossible to take a clear photograph.
All these memorials are in the back garden of the museum which is a tight space and, much as we'd like to, it's impossible to provide a p...
David Jones CH, 1895 - 1974, artist, soldier, poet, lived at this address 1895 - 1908. London Borough of Lewisham
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
Unveiled by other members of the 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' team.
Harold Victor Sheehy was born on 16 October 1900, his birth being registered in the 4th quarter of 1900 in the Reading Registration District, Berkshire. On 6 August 1922 he married Ellen Louisa Ad...
John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865) and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...
Born in London. His piano-making father named him after Handel. Married briefly to Ellen Terry, many years his junior. 1886 married Mary Tytler. The statue 'Physical Energy' in Hyde Park is his. Le...
Architect of the British Legion Hornsey in 1929.
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