Plaque

Spa Green

Inscription

Spa Green
This was the site of New Tunbridge Wells (or Islington Spa) Pleasure Gardens and Medicinal Well which flourished from about 1685 to 1840.

This plaque has large blank areas which the local artists do their best to decorate.

Site: Spa Green (1 memorial)

EC1, Lloyd's Row

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spa Green

Subjects commemorated i

New Tunbridge Wells

Pleasure Gardens and Medicinal Well. Also known as Islington Spa.

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Rose Theatre - Kingston upon Thames

Rose Theatre - Kingston upon Thames

KT1, Kingston High Street, 24 - 26

The plaque can be seen in our photo to the right of the entrance.

3 subjects commemorated
Lilian Harvey

Lilian Harvey

N8, Weston Park, 13

Lilian Harvey, 1906 - 1968, actress born here.

1 subject commemorated
St Mary Magdalene Gardens

St Mary Magdalene Gardens

N7, Holloway Road

St Mary Magdalene was built in 1814 as a chapel of ease to Islington Parish Church, the parish having grown from the mid C18th onwards, a...

7 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Dire Straits first gig

Dire Straits first gig

SE8, Creekside, 1 Farrer House, Crossfield Estate

This plaque was brought to our attention by Deptford Dame and then Alan Patient went along and took the pictures. See the BBC for some ba...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Tachbrook - Murray

Tachbrook - Murray

SW1, Bessborough Street

Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...

1 subject commemorated

Previously viewed

Marble Arch

Marble Arch

W1, Marble Arch

In summary: 45ft high, clad in white Carrara marble. Designed by Nash and erected, 1827-33, as a ceremonial entrance from the Mall to Bu...

2 subjects commemorated, 4 creators
Regent Street - first cinema in Britain

Regent Street - first cinema in Britain

W1, Regent Street, 309, University of Westminster

The Lumières' friend, Felicien Trewey, a French music hall entertainer already popular in London, brought the Lumière Cinématographe mach...

2 subjects commemorated
Ciuffo
1 memorial
Metropolitan Railway Company

Metropolitan Railway Company

This was the world's first underground passenger railway which opened from Paddington to Farringdon via Baker Street Station on 10th January 1863. IanVisits has reproduced an Illustrated London Ne...

Group, Transport

8 memorials
Thomas Armitage

Thomas Armitage

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial