Erection date: 2011
Festival of Britain 1951, 3rd May - 3rd November, site of the Festival Pleasure Gardens 2011.
Wandsworth Council
SW11, Battersea Park, Fountain Lake
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Festival of Britain - SW11
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...
The gardens were in the northern part of Battersea Park, which had been trans...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - SW11
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
Borough of Lewisham Thankfull Sturdee, 1852 - 1934, local historian and photographer, lived here, 1900-1903.
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor, lived here. Born 1853, died 1937.
Geoffrey Mills was the pilot - see his page for more details. Our information comes from the British Newspaper Archive: the Birmingham Da...
English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.
C. B. Fry, 1872 - 1956, all-round sportsman, was born here. English Heritage
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