In loving memory of Sir Roy Watts Kt, Chairman of Thames Water 1983-1993 and a Freeman of the City of London, who tragically drowned near this spot on 27th April 1993.
1925-1993
A very sad plaque. Watts's home was somewhere in this area but his body was actually found near Westminster Bridge. We don't know on what basis the plaque assumes the drowning took place near this spot.
SW11, Riverside Walk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Roy Watts
Chief Executive of British Airways and then Chairman of Thames Water. Obituar...
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There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
Lord David Sheppard, 1929 - 2005, England cricket captain, Bishop of Woolwich then Bishop of Liverpool. Lived here from 1969 to 1975. Pec...
This building was the Battersea Town Hall 1893 - 1965, and became the Battersea Arts Centre in 1974. Suffered a bad fire in 2015. The Pl...
We'd hoped to find more information about the early buildings, perhaps a picture, but we found nothing. We are thankful that the new-bui...
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