{The inscription on the front of the plinth has become illegible, all but:}
... who gave their lives in the wars
1914 – 1918
1939 – 1945
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to do in incorporate WW2 was to add the dates and an 's' to 'war'.
SE16, St Marychurch Street, St Mary the Virgin Church
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rotherhithe war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
There are several names at the bottom of the memorial which are not in alphabetical order. Presumably these were added after the memorial...
A bomb fell here in WW2 destroying a number of graves. This circular walled enclosure and the stone pedestal at the centre commemorate th...
This monument appears in a scene shot on location in the 1973 movie 'Vault of Horror' (segment 5 'Drawn and Quartered'). There you see th...
Unveiled in the Somerset House quadrangle in 1924. Moved to the Thames side terrace in 2002.
This probably isn't a City of London plaque - though blue and oblong, the proportions are wrong, the style is different and its anonymous.
Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried b...
The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...
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