Erection date: 2005
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” .
SE1, Redcross Way, 50
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 1
Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two r...
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Red Cross Garden 1
Sir Arthur Keith, 1866 - 1955, distinguished physiologist and anthropologist, lived here, 1908 - 1933. London Borough of Islington Histor...
Sir Benjamin Baker, 1840 - 1907, civil engineer, designer of the Forth Bridge, lived here 1881 - 1894. English Heritage
Above the entrance to the building (to the left of our picture) in stone: 1573, E.R.".
The dates suggest that the terrace was built on the site of the Manor House and that in 1936 the terrace was replaced by the Town Hall. ...
