Erection date: 1999
On this site lived William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) inventor and polemicist, and his wife Sarah Flower (1805 - 1848) hymnodist and poet.
Loughton Town Council 1999
IG10, Woodbury Hill, 9
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sarah and William Adams
Actress, hymnwriter and poet. Born Sarah Fuller Flower in Old Harlow, Essex. ...
Author and engineer. Born in Woore, Shropshire. He invented the 'Adams Axle' ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sarah and William Adams
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban...
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Sarah and William Adams
This heraldic shield is probably original to the building and has no connecti...
We think the history of this hospital is that: it was opened on 15 March 1850 as the Establishment for Gentlewomen During Temporary Illne...
This delightful plaque has a crest at each end. The open gate rather spoils the picture.
Wikipedia gives the architects as "Davis and Emanuel Pevsner". We believe the "Pevsner" to be an error, that has been widely copied.
This plaque contradicts English Heritage's rules about erecting only one plaque per person, as there is already one for him in E1.
