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
Here lived Topham Beauclerk. Born 1739. Died 1780. Lady Diana Beauclerk. Born 1734. Died 1808.
Brought to our notice by Spitalfields Life.
Octavia Hill, 1838 - 1912, housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust began her work here. English Heritage
This plaque honours the national servicemen of of the London Borough of Greenwich, who were conscripted between 1945 and 1963. We commem...
Founded as Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. Name shortened to District Bank in 1924. 1962 acquired by the National Provincial Bank but traded separately until the 1968 merger with Westminste...
Ernest Fulford was born on 5 July 1890 in Islington, London, the youngest of the three children of John Philip Fulford (1856-1938) and Isabelle Ann Fulford née Lee (1850-1895). His birth was regist...
Actress. Margaret Natalie Smith, known professionally as Maggie Smith, was born on 28 December 1934 in Ilford, Essex, the youngest of the three children of Nathaniel Smith (1902-1991) and Margaret ...
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.
This space, including the stylish garage ramp, was once the garden to number 9. The building's current occupants, The Royal Society, prov...
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