In loving memory of Sir Roy Watts Kt, Chairman of Thames Water 1983-1993 and a Freeman of the City of London, who tragically drowned near this spot on 27th April 1993.
1925-1993
A very sad plaque. Watts's home was somewhere in this area but his body was actually found near Westminster Bridge. We don't know on what basis the plaque assumes the drowning took place near this spot.
SW11, Riverside Walk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Roy Watts
Chief Executive of British Airways and then Chairman of Thames Water. Obituar...
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865 - 1925, Camden Town Group painter, lived here, 1900 - 1925. English Heritage
This image comes from the 1946 short documentary film 'Prisoners of the Tower'. It is shown laid into the ground at the centre of a cobbl...
The Victoria Cross plaques are located on the grass by the memorial. and can be seen in the bottom right of our photograph. Regarding Ce...
He lived at what was number 19 Warwick Crescent.
At SCRSS we learn that regular remembrance ceremonies are held here on Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January, the anniversary of the liberat...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
The Richmond plaque can be seen in our photo, between the lamppost and the two blackboards.
This tree commemorates the life of Brian Knights who fell to his death on 2 April 1998 during the construction of the Museum.
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