The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865' by James Russell Lowell. Its right-justification and t...
The screen wall at the back, south, of the memorial carries a number of bronze panels listing the names.
There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
Between 1947 and 2000 eighty peace pagodas were built around the world by the Nipponzan Myohoji Japanese Buddist movement, led by Nichida...
Ao. Di. instead of A.D. is very unusual. Fecit is Latin: 'he made it'.
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monument used to be the south side of North Woolwich Road, nearly o...
Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bird (a swallow?) used to be flying in front of an enamelled bl...
This memorial is close to the crash site. There is another in New Addington.
There is another memorial in Sandilands.
In our photo the foundation stone can be seen behind the railings, below the left-hand ground floor window. This 1906 building was the H...
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