Plaque

Sewers - College Place

Inscription

{Top plaque:}
Commissioners of Sewers, Holborn & Finsbury Divisions.

{Lower plaque:}
Commissioners of Sewers Holborn and Finsbury Divisions. A public sewer runs beneath this stone.

See Herbal Hill for a similar plaque.

Site: College Place - Sewers + Hiroshima (3 memorials)

NW1, College Place

The door to the right is the entrance to Theatre Technis

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sewers - College Place

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Commissioners of Sewers, Holborn and Finsbury Divisions

We don't want to go very deeply into this subject but according to this repor...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sewers - College Place

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Hiroshima - College Place - mural

Hiroshima - College Place - mural

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Hiroshima - College Place - plaque

Hiroshima - College Place - plaque

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