Created to oversee the completion of the 'Wall of Heroes' in Postman's Park, members included the vicar and churchwardens of St Botolph's Aldersgate and, we assume, G. F. Watts and Mary Watts at some time. Originally named the Humble Heroes Memorial Committee but renamed at Watts' insistence to remove any class overtones.Minutes Books are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Heroic Self Sacrifice Memorial Committee
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PP - 2E - Ricketts
PC Harold Frank Ricketts, Metropolitan Police, drowned at Teignmouth whilst t...
PP - 2F - Greenoff
PC Edward George Brown Greenoff, Metropolitan Police. Many lives were saved b...
PP - 2G - Cook
“High tension” is the same as “high voltage” - dangerously high electrical en...
PP - 2H - Pumping Works
This plaque was originally erected in 1902 at 3G but Watts incorrectly gave t...
PP - 3G - Maconoghu
This plaque was created specifically to fill the gap left by the corrected Pu...
Other Subjects
Peter Arnold
Tenuously connected to Benedict Arnold. From NBC: "An amateur historian, Arnold thoroughly researched his family lineage and discovered a link to the general - although his own branch of the Arnol...
Jenny Murray
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Historian, essayist, poet. Born Leicestershire but brought up in the Clapham home. Spent four years (1834 - 8) as an administrator in India, during which he showed little interest in Indian cultu...
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Globe Town
Area of London, approximately within Bethnal Green, Bow and Stepney Green. It was established to provide for the expanding population of Huguenot and Irish silk weavers. A track running north from ...
John Dixon
Civil Engineer from Newcastle. Freemason. His brother, Waynman, was an engineer and an Egyptologist so was used on the project to bring Cleopatra's Needle to London. There is a legend that Waynman ...
Nightingale Nurse Training School
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
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