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...
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High Tide - 1874
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
High Tide - 1874
The school was formerly the Linden Lodge School for the Blind, which Shearing attended as a boy. The plaque is on a building far from the...
London County Council Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898, poet, stayed here in 1863.
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
The plaque is located further into the market, above the entrance to the Green Market section.
This stone records the opening of the bridge to the public. Another similar stone at the north-west corner of the bridge records the gif...
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