The trees and plants on this green are in memory of Rachael Rackow and Julian Tremain who lived nearby and died with their friends in the Marchioness river boat disaster of August 1989.
SE21, Red Post Hill, Opposite 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marchioness at Dulwich
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with ...
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
Gavin Maxwell, 1914 - 1969, naturalist and writer lived here, 1961 - 1965.
The plaque was a foundation stone laid into the wall of the building but it now serves as a memorial to the building which was demolished...
An unusually decorative and high quality plaque for such a mundane event. We don't know whether it refers to a restoration of just the me...
Political philosopher. Born Barmen, Germany. Died at home in Regent's Park Road. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says at number 41 but there is no suggestion anywhere else that the Enge...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Germany
Novelist and poet. Born Kingsley William Amis in Norbury. His many novels include 'Lucky Jim', 'Take a Girl Like You' and 'The Old Devils'. He also wrote six volumes of poetry, and works of non-fic...
Labour politician. Born at 240 Ferndale Road, Brixton (from Oxford Dictionary of Biography; Wikipedia differs). Leader of the London County Council, 1934–1940. As Minister of Supply briefly in 1940...
Very sad - a stump of a memorial that is also weathered into illegibility.
This cast of characters also appear on the nearby St Paul's Choir school plaque, erected 5 years earlier when Claughton was still only a ...
