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

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

Subjects commemorated i

Red Cross Garden

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

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 1

Also at this site i

Octavia Hill - SE1

Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, an...

Red Cross Garden 2

The roundel was created by a glass-making firm, James Powell and Son, after a...

Red Cross Garden 3

The quotation comes from Genesis 1:31. The question is an addition.

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