Erection date: 1988
Site of Vicar's Oak.
Boundaries Gate
Crystal Palace Park 1988
SE19, Crystal Palace Parade, Entrance to Crystal Palace Park
There are identical plaques on both columns at the entrance to the park.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Vicar's Oak
The tree is mentioned as early as 1583. According to Alan Warwick in his book...
On this site stood the Paragon Works of the Brilliant Sign Company. Formed in 1888, the company patented the 'brilliant letter' shop sign...
What a great plaque. The inscription is inside a laurel wreath, in front of a burning building. A hose snakes from the building, over the...
The flower on the plaque looks to us like a chrysanthemum but we don't know if it has any special significance.
The plaque is at the base of the tower. Our colleague Andrew Behan, has researched all the names on the memorial. A history time line of...
Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 1666. Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
An educational charity, opened as part of Sands Films Studio, and situated in the same Grade II listed building. The library is home to thousands of old photographs, postcards and magazines. Pictur...
From Famous Pulpits of our Churches - Caledonian Road, by by Rev. William Mincher: "In 1868 Joseph Toulson became minister. He was a man of wonderful resource, untiring patience, and consummate tac...
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
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