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
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
London County Council Arnold Bennett, 1867 - 1931, novelist, lived here.
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
London County Council Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, 1769-1849, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806-1859, civil engineers, lived here.
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
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