{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...
A time capsule is buried beneath this monument. From Londonist: "The box, filled with first world war memorabilia, is fashioned from the...
This memorial was brought to our notice by our colleage Jamie Davis. He found the photo of the memorial behind the bus on Mike's Bus Pag...
The face on the right (south-facing) has been badly weather-beaten and then it seems the lettering has been renewed but only some of it, ...
The inscription is in excellent condition which makes us think it has recently been remade.
The Pool of London Partnership have put up a number of plaques, attached to walls in the normal fashion. We can't see why St Saviour’s D...
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