Lewisham Victoria Cross memorial
SE13, Lewisham High Street
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewisham and nearby areas.
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewisham and nearby areas.
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: four women and one 7-year-old girl.
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the plinth. Many of these are too weather-beaten to read so we hav...
A very modern war memorial (which even has seating space for the weary), but we cannot find any information about the designer/sculptor. ...
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obelisk may represent the fallen.
The Sainsbury's plaques are on the wall to the right of the large bush in the centre of the photograph.
Albert is shown holding the catalogue of the Great Exhibition, held in this park in 1851 for which he was the driving force. The statue i...
We first photographed this memorial some time ago when it was in a very bad condition. It has since been completely renovated, but there ...
The inscription is in excellent condition which makes us think it has recently been remade.
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