{On each side of the crucifix is a wooden plaque:}
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord.
1914 - 1918, 1939 - 1945
SW18, West Hill, St Thomas a Becket catholic church
Unusually we have taken our picture of the building from the church's own website - it is much better than ours.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Thomas a Becket church war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
The large lettering runs along the top of the south face of the building.
The quoted text comes at the end of Chapter 13 of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens, the 'him' being Arthur Clennam. The Victorian Socie...
The assumption has to be that these are the remains of the building that was here before the current one was erected. British History On...
The quotation, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', was spoken by Kenneth Branagh at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.
This example of architectural reclamation was brought to our attention by Discovering London's Friday elephant. There you can see not jus...
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