Welcome to South Norwood home of inventor, engineer and philanthropist, William Stanley (1829 - 1909).
SE25, Station Road
In our photo the subway plaque can be seen above the entrance to the tunnel. The Stanley sign is above the 'public footpath' sign at the end of the railings. There is an identical subway plaque at the other end of the subway.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Stanley - Norwood Junction
Inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist. Born William Ford Robinson Stanley...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
William Stanley - Norwood Junction
Conceived by borough engineer George Carter and constructed by Robert McAlpin...
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Killed at 9am as she cycled to work, by a coach. As far as we can tell the coach turned left across her path, as she also turned left out...
In the back garden of the pub so we've no idea how we spotted it. But once we had we couldn't not collect it - very unusual.
We understand "the neighbouring fire officers" to mean the four fire assurance companies represented by their insignia on the four sides ...
This memorial is stencilled onto the pavement at the south east corner of the junction with Upper Thames Street.
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