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 ...
Frankie Howerd OBE, 1917 - 1992, comedian lived here, 1966 - 1992. The Dead Comics Society
The main entrance to the church is in Russell Street, built into the facade of the much later Fortune Theatre. Behind this door there mu...
This game took place, on a Saturday, just 2 months after the FA had been formed.
Bakerloo Line Centenary of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, 1906 - 2006
Ruy Barbosa, 1849 - 1923, eminent Brazilian statesman and jurist lived here, 1895. Anglo-Brazilian Society
Musicians. The backing group of Buddy Holly. Originally, the group comprised Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe Mauldin on bass, but Sullivan dropped out after a year o...
A watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London. There were many obvious flaws and impossibilities in Hubert's confession. He h...
This plaque seems to be an afterthought to the new Islington war memorial. It names the two creators of that and also commemorates the wa...
The board is not visually very interesting so we photo'd the church window instead.
Designed in 1962 by AC Cars in collaboration with Carroll Shelby, this was generally acknowledged to be one of the fastest two-seater production sports cars in the world. It went on to achieve fam...
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