Peabody tenants - past and present
This is an odd little obelisk, with minimal information. We wonder if the form is intended to recall the obelisk at nearby St George's Circus, which went walk-about 1897-1998. If you have any informtion please contact us.
SE1, Blackfriars Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peabody tenants
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Peabody tenants
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Peabody Donation Fund by George ...
At its source this photo of the two memorials is dated: "25 January 2001, just prior to their movement to storage and re-erection in Hamm...
The face on the right (south-facing) has been badly weather-beaten and then it seems the lettering has been renewed but only some of it, ...
This bronze figure represents Daedalus, the Greek guy who crafted wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape Crete. But he used wax ...
The 3 guardsmen are cast from captured Russian guns. The guns displayed at the rear are those used at the siege of Sebastopol. This was ...
This WW1 memorial was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. There surely must be photos of it in situ but we've not found any. A stone seat was erect...
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