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
Greater London Council George Meredith, O.M., 1828-1909, poet and novelist, lived here.
Roy Hattersley, a Bennett enthusiast, unveiled the plaque.
Sir Fabian Ware, 1869 - 1949, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission, lived here 1911 - 1919. English Heritage
The designer of the building clearly had the 'citadel' concept in mind. Strangely, some of these foundation plaques have had their inscri...
Dame Marie Tempest, 1864 - 1942, actress, lived here, 1899 - 1902. Greater London Council
Founder of the Ardath Tobacco Company. Honorary Treasurer at the Royal Free Hospital in 1926. See Lord Riddell. Also helped fund the 1928 new extension for which the maternity section was named t...
In the photo the memorial is partly hidden by the rubbish bin.
George Daniels CBE, watchmaker, 1926 - 2011, lived & worked here. The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers The British Horological Insti...
This plaque is on the right-hand fork of the path close to the Camberwell Green air-raid memorial. It is unusually wide in its scope of c...
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