Plaque

Red Cross Garden 1

Erection date: 2005

Inscription

The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
A new life for Red Cross Garden 2005.

The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph.
The quotation is an edited version of Isaiah 35:1, “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose” .

Site: Red Cross Garden (4 memorials)

SE1, Redcross Way, 50

The Red Cross Cottages were designed by Elijah Hoole.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 1

Subjects commemorated i

Red Cross Garden

Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two r...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 1

Also at this site i

Octavia Hill - SE1

Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, an...

Red Cross Garden 2

The roundel was created by a glass-making firm, James Powell and Son, after a...

Red Cross Garden 3

The quotation comes from Genesis 1:31. The question is an addition.

See other memorials in the area

Nearby Memorials

Clapham Odeon

SW12, Balham Hill, 10 - 12

In our picture the plaque is above the poster which the man is walking past.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Bart's - East Building

EC1, St Bartholomew's Hospital, East Building

This building faces onto the central courtyard.

3 subjects commemorated

View on map

Toynbee Hall clock

E1, Commercial Street, Toynbee Hall

The top plaque claims the 1965 restoration was in appreciation of "the half century", but of what? We can't find anything relevant to To...

4 subjects commemorated

View on map

Middlesex Hospital and Barnato and Joel

W1, Nassau Street

We had not heard of the Barnato-Joel family before coming across this plaque. If the web can be believed they are a tragic family. Do ...

3 subjects commemorated, 10 creators

View on map

First flying bomb

E3, Grove Road

From English Heritage: "The plaque was unveiled on 13 June, 41 years after the bomb fell. Stolen in 1987, it was replaced with an English...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

View on map