This wall was erected and the piles fixed Anno Domini 1817.
William Smith - Warden.
SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital
Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked is probably Trinity House. The BBC has a good page about London floodings.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817
The Thames flood wall was erected probably in response to the "The Great Tham...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wall - 1817
Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society confirms our link to the 4th Earl.
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
Hablot Knight Browne alias 'Phiz', 1815 - 1882, illustrator of Dickens's novels lived here 1874 - 1880. English Heritage
The cartouches are on the two gables on the front elevation. Speel informs that the relief and the plain inscribed stone were moved here ...
Mervyn Mansell, MBE. DSC. 1918-2009, player and Colts coaching manager, a lifelong contribution
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