{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...
Seamus Heaney unveiled the plaque and performed at a poetry reading later in Stratford Town Hall as part of the celebrations for the 150t...
The cross is granite and is planted in a cairn of granite boulders, many of which have a flat section carved out and a name spelt out in ...
The bas-relief of Williams is by Sir Albert Gilbert.
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, ...
We took our photos on 25 November.
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