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
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817
The plaque is located in the foyer of the New Diorama Theatre.
Greater London Council Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, 1828 - 1913, surgeon, scientist and teacher, lived here.
Jack Beresford, 1899 - 1977, Olympic rowing champion, lived here, 1903 - 1940. English Heritage
The top plaque claims the 1965 restoration was in appreciation of "the half century", but of what? We can't find anything relevant to To...
The spelling is probably a good indication of which country funded this memorial.
Composer and music historian. Born Charles Hubert Hastings Parry at 2 Richmond Terrace, Bournemouth. He became a professor at the Royal College of Music in 1883, and Professor of Music at Oxford in...
Just like a Hollywood movie that doesn't know when to end, Napoleon escaped from Elba, and returned for one last attempt at world domination. The memorial at the station refers to the "Allied armie...
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