Erection date: 2014
{On each of the 4 gate leaves:}
Southwark Park Act - 150 years
{On the railings either site of each pair of gates, left to right}
1864
2014
SE16, Southwark Park, carriageway
There are a pair of these gates on each side of the carriageway which bisects the Park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Park Act gates
The Park was created mainly from market gardens. More information at Histori...
From HGS Heritiage: "On 28th April 2001, a group of Suburb residents led by the Reverend Tony Spring formerly {sic} opened a new Memoria...
"The splendid struggling mothers..." is surely a quote from something, perhaps written by Geraldine Mary at the time the Park was being p...
Records of this coaching inn date back to 1542 although the current building dates back to 1676 when it was rebuilt following a devastati...
The two plaques are inside the porch facing each other. The one to J. Dawbarn Young himself, facing north, seems better protected from t...
A nearby information board provides: "Following site redevelopment these splendid gates, from the original National Physical Laboratory (...
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
Wife of George V, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Born Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck at Kensington Palace. Nicknamed May, the month of her birth. Her...
From HGS Heritiage: "On 28th April 2001, a group of Suburb residents led by the Reverend Tony Spring formerly {sic} opened a new Memoria...
This building dates from 1868. Reeves moved out in 1948. The London Project associates the building with the early film industry, in 1907...
Henry Daniel Aldred was born in Penge, Kent (now Greater London) the youngest of the five children of George Henry Aldred (1859-1930) and Caroline Aldred née Perry (1859-1913). His birth was regist...
