This garden was laid out in 1887 by Julia Countess of Ducie.
God saw the earth and behold it was very good. Have we done our best to make it very good?
The quotation comes from Genesis 1:31. The question is an addition.
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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 3
Wife of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, Third Earl of Ducie. There is no portrait and...
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 3
The Royal Photographic Society plaque is on the left above the wheelie-bins. The BFI plaque is on the pillar on the right.
Bertram Mills had died 8 months before the plaque was unveiled. The Winnipeg Tribune of 7 January the following year contains a vivid de...
Crossing the River by Brian Cookson points out that the 18th of June was a bridge-heavy day for Prince Albert Victor in 1887 - he opened ...
The well memorial is difficult to see in our photo. It's laid into the flint cobbles in front of the bench. London Gardens Online gives:...
Samuel Morris was Mayor of Doncaster in 1920-21 and 1936-37, with his wife, Anna, as the Mayoress each time. We found this at Commercial Motor Archive, 11 March 1938: "The haulage industry has an...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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