Plaque

Red Cross Garden 1

Erection date: 2005

Inscription

The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
A new life for Red Cross Garden 2005.

The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph.
The quotation is an edited version of Isaiah 35:1, “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose” .

Site: Red Cross Garden (4 memorials)

SE1, Redcross Way, 50

The Red Cross Cottages were designed by Elijah Hoole.

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

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 1

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Red Cross Garden

Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two r...

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Red Cross Garden 1

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Octavia Hill - SE1

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Red Cross Garden 2

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