Erection date: 1999
On this site lived William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) inventor and polemicist, and his wife Sarah Flower (1805 - 1848) hymnodist and poet.
Loughton Town Council 1999
IG10, Woodbury Hill, 9
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sarah and William Adams
Actress, hymnwriter and poet. Born Sarah Fuller Flower in Old Harlow, Essex. ...
Author and engineer. Born in Woore, Shropshire. He invented the 'Adams Axle' ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sarah and William Adams
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban...
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Sarah and William Adams
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Unveiled exactly 109 years after he was born.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing these photos. The Daily Mail reported that in the 1964 Mary Poppins film this "... hou...
In our photo the plaque can be seen above the head of the passer-by on the right.
The lettering is, unusually, made up of dots, pierced in the stone.
Former members include Field Marshal Earl Haig, and future kings Edward VIII and George VI.
Wikipedia explains: "According to John Stow, in 1370, the Brabant weaver community was ordered by the Mayor to meet in the churchyard of ...
Either the club or its Harrier section was established in 1904. Its origins are back in the 1880s when it was part of the sports section of the Woodford Green Working Mens' Institute. More inform...
The 'courage' quote is from a speech Fawcett gave after the death of fellow suffrage campaigner Emily Davison.
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