Near this spot on Sunday 20th August 1989 the pleasure boat Marchioness was in collision with another vessel and sank with the loss of 51 lives.
SE1, Jubilee Gardens
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows:
Royal Festival Hall
National Theatre
London Eye - this one.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marchioness at London Eye
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with ...
The plaque is not very interesting but the brickwork on this building is so attractive that we were glad to find an excuse to include it....
Regent's Park Lit details how Bowen set scenes in her novels in Regent's Park, which she could see out the window as she wrote.
Henry Hall, 1898 - 1989, dance band leader and broadcaster, lived here 1932 - 1959. English Heritage
It's not possible to read all the text but the 1345 date confirms that our (not very difficult) guess is probably correct - that the Gard...
We imagine the serrated edge is meant to resemble a silver coin but it makes us think of a bottle cap. Doesn't the inscription conjure u...
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