Erection date: 29/10/2014
Sir Thomas Peirson Frank, 1881 - 1951, Chief Engineer for London County Council, 1930 - 1946, saved London from drowning during the Blitz.
Institution of Civil Engineers
City of Westminster
Unveiled by the Audrey Lewis.
SW1, Victoria Tower Gardens
This plaque is attached to one of the repaired sections of the river wall damaged in WW2 and repaired by Peirson's secret rapid response unit.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Peirson Frank
Civil engineer. Born Yorkshire as Thomas Peirson Frank. Chief Engineer for L...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Peirson Frank
The professional institution for civil engineers, with members in the UK and ...
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Had a career in advertising before being elected to Westminster City Council,...
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The plaque can be seen in our photo, over to the right, buried in the hedge.
This plaque was lost sometime July 2021 - August 2022.
In 1892 Besant built a substantial house just to the east of this one, where there is an official, significant plaque. We can find no ref...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
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