Erection date: 2014
{On each of the 4 gate leaves:}
Southwark Park Act - 150 years
{On the railings either site of each pair of gates, left to right}
1864
2014
SE16, Southwark Park, carriageway
There are a pair of these gates on each side of the carriageway which bisects the Park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Park Act gates
The Park was created mainly from market gardens. Alexander McKenzie, the land...
See Alpha Rail for a close-up photo of these lovely Art Deco gates during their restoration in 2013. "Significant changes were being made...
2019: We are grateful to Justin Barkham who pointed out that we had incorrectly transcribed the text on the shield as 'Memory and peace' ...
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
The two plaques are inside the porch facing each other. The one to J. Dawbarn Young himself, facing north, seems better protected from t...
Wynne was the artist for the central, cartoony, lion and unicorn screen. Lund was the designer of the rather lovely forged stainless ste...