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 plaque is laid in the ground and can be seen in our photo in front of the unoccupied chair.
Laurence Corner On this site was the famous chic Army Surplus store, which sadly closed in 2007, 54 years after it first opened its doors...
Site of Grey Friars Monastery, 1225 - 1538. The Corporation of the City of London
Francis Owen Salisbury "Frank" 1874 - 1962 Artist, mural and portrait painter recorder of scenes of magnificent pageantry and historic ev...
We have laboured long and hard trying to understand what "H.R" and these dates refer to, but have yet to find an answer. Here is a report...
