Plaque

High Tide - 1874

Inscription

Variable high tides
March 30th 1874
Joseph Giles - Warden 

Site: Thames flood level markers (3 memorials)

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.

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High Tide - 1874

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1874 flood

From Environment Agency:  “In 1874, the tide in the Thames rose 4 feet 3½ inc...

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High Tide - 1874

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Joseph Giles

Warden, presumably of a church.

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874

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High Tide - 1928

High Tide - 1928

The 75 ft of wall which collapsed may actually have been in Millbank which is...

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Wall - 1817

Wall - 1817

This wall was erected and the piles fixed Anno Domini 1817. William Smith - W...

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