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
This event took place 7 months after Thatcher's tearful departure from Downing Street.
Alfred Reynolds, Hungarian poet and philosopher lived here 1980 - 1993.
This garden used to have a low wall along the boundary with the pavement and the plaque was mounted on that. But, 2012, we noticed that ...
The signal box is now, 2022, home to La Boîte, a crêperie. The story of this signal box is well told at Highams Park Forum, where we lea...
We have Sue Thorburn to thank for bringing this plaque to our attention.
There are 8 Courts running off the north side of this section of Fleet Street and on the ground at the entrance to each Court is a plaque...
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has been administered by the Society ever since.
Born Islington into the stationery family. Trustee of Islington Union Chapel. MP for Islington South. 1885-6. Henry Spicer was the eldest of the ten children of Henry S. J. Spicer (1801-1877) a...
Singer and songwriter. Born Ronald Belford Scott in Forfar, Scotland, his family moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was six. He joined the rock group AC/DC as lead singer in 1974. Following a re...
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