Memorial

Plaque: Wall - 1817

Inscription

This wall was erected and the piles fixed Anno Domini 1817.
William Smith - Warden.

SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital

Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked is probably Trinity House. The BBC has a good page about London floodings.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817

The Thames flood wall was erected probably in response to the "The Great Tham...

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817

Warden, presumably of a church.

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817

Variable high tides March 30th 1874 Joseph Giles - Warden

We think the 75 ft of wall which collapsed were actually in Millbank which is...