Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, and pioneered Army Cadets 1887 - 1890.
London Borough of Southwark
Voted by the people
SE1, Redcross Way, 50
The Red Cross Cottages were designed by Elijah Hoole.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Octavia Hill - SE1
Summarised from Army Cadets: In 1859 the Volunteers were formed (forerunner t...
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Camb...
Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two r...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Octavia Hill - SE1
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Octavia Hill - SE1
The Latin quote is from the Roman poet Horace's Odes and translates roughly as "It is sweet and right to die for your country."
Christchurch - Greyfriars This Wren church was destroyed by fire-bombs in December 1940. Under the pastoral reorganisation measure of 19...
Dame Sheila Sherlock, MD, FRS, 1918 - 2001, world authority on the liver, professor of medicine, lived here 1970 - 2001. City of Westminster
This 'plaque' was spotted in 2018 by a friend who lives nearby, to whom we are also grateful for the photos.
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