Erection date: 9/11/2017
In memory of the seven people who lost their lives and those affected by the tram derailment close to Sandilands on 9 November 2016.
Croydon will never forget.
CR0, Central Parade, Market Square
There is another memorial in Sandilands.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Croydon Tram Derailment - New Addington
The tram carrying 69 passengers, had left New Addington bound for Wimbledon. ...
The inscription "at call of king . . . Live in freedom" comes from a letter sent by King George V to every bereaved family. The Holy Trin...
On site we thought there were only 2 inscriptions but IWM gives the text of 3. It seems likely that the 4th face also carried text origin...
The list of names are presented in two columns but unusually they are not listed alphabetically. Apart from the same surnames being group...
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at India Gate in New Delhi. Regarding the list of names - we t...
This is a multi-part monument across two sites. The elements at this site (kiosks and piers) used to be further to the east, possibly w...
Camden's local list gives some of the history of this site. It dates the corner building as 1871 - 1894 and "The original entrance has be...
With one clue from a Council document related to the impressive Time Flies clock tower, we searched high and low for a "Mrs Galpin" who could have been the donor but found nothing to substantiate t...
This pair of semi-detached houses was built in 1881 and immediately put to use as Westfield College. Number 6, to the left with the West...
Three churches and two clock towers have been built on this site, but nothing remains today. A modern information board (which you can se...
Born Edith Murdoch Tait, daughter of Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury. 12 November 1878 Married Randall Davidson who went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
