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
Elinor Quick
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
R.M. Robbins
Author of "The History of London Transport" published in 4 vols 1974- 1976
Sir Proby Cautley
Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS. Born Suffolk. Proby was his mother's maiden name. 1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant. Apart from a few years his work there was main...
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193 Fleet Street - 3 - Wedgwood
EC4, Fleet Street, 193
Building erected in 1883 by George Attenborough for his jewellery and pawn-broking business, Attenborough and Sons. Architects: Archer an...
Dr. Grantly Dick-Read
He was born as Grantly Dick Read (with no hyphen) on 26 January 1890, the sixth of the seven children of Robert John Samuel Read (1851-1920) and Frances Maria Read née Sayer (1855-1942) in Beccles,...
All Saints Cemetery
Now known as Nunhead cemetery, it was one of the so-called 'magnificent seven' cemeteries, opened on the outskirts of London in the nineteenth century, to alleviate the overcrowding in parish buria...
Lydia Becker
President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for ...
Hackney parish watch house
A watch house was an early form of police station and prison. Criminals were held here temporarily.
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