Variable high tides
March 30th 1874
Joseph Giles - Warden
SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital
Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked is probably Trinity House. The BBC has a good page about London floodings.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
From Environment Agency: “In 1874, the tide in the Thames rose 4 feet 3½ inc...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
St Luke's feast day is 18 October. It's very possible that the text we can't quite read identifies Shattock as a churchwarden along with ...
This is a very odd corner of London. It has been taken over by Albins who have a "Memorial Garden" open to the public, office hours and w...
From BCS: "We had to do Sid twice because the first plaque was stolen; the second was placed much higher up the wall!"
Hertha Ayrton, 1854 - 1923, physicist, lived here, 1903 - 1923. English Heritage
Only a foundation stone but the delightful carved border means that we'd collect this plaque whatever it commemorated.
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