Sculpture

Surrey Commercial Docks - relief model

Erection date: 1989

Inscription

{Around the rim:}
London Docklands 1989
Surrey Commercial Docks 1896

Designer Michael Rizzello

Site: Surrey Commercial Docks - relief model (1 memorial)

SE16, Stave Hill

In 1985 the William Curtis Ecological Park was returned to the site owner, the London Docklands Development Corporation, who provided this Stave Hill Ecological Park as a replacement.

The redevelopment of this area in 1984 resulted in this mini-mountain, Stave Hill. Seems that so many buildings were demolished that even after all the docks were filled in there was still a large amount of rubble left over.

Limehouse basin has a similar model.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Surrey Commercial Docks - relief model

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Surrey Docks

The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The firs...

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Surrey Commercial Docks - relief model

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London Docklands Development Corporation

We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...

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Michael Rizzello

Sculptor and designer. Born Michael Gaspard Rizzello in London, to an Italian...

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