From Environment Agency: “In 1874, the tide in the Thames rose 4 feet 3½ inches above Trinity mark, and inundated the south bank of the river along Lambeth, Bankside, and Rotherhithe, and even as far as Woolwich, causing a considerable loss of property and at least one life.”
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1874 flood
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Atique Sharifi
Although commemorated on plaques as Atiq Sharifi, he was born as Atique Sharifi on 1 January 1981 in Afghanistan and entered the UK as a refugee in 2002. Living in Hounslow, he was a student at Wes...
3 memorials
Robert Underhill
For more information about this hero click on the picture of the distillery plaque.
1 memorial
Samuel Southgate
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 23. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
Alexander Williamson Fallon
Alexander Williamson Fallon was born in 1914 in Falkirk, Scotland. He was married with four daughters. His wife, Janet, died about 1974 and he drifted into homelessness in London in the 1980's. He...
1 memorial
John S. Peddie
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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