In the house of which this shelter is a remainder lived, 1799–1814, Captain James Wilson, who was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1760 and after an adventurous life at sea during which he was present at the Battles of Lexington and Bunker‘s Hill and was confined nearly two years in the Black Hole at Seringapatam, served the London Missionary Society, 1796–98, as Honorary Commander of the ‘Duff’, the first British Missionary Ship of modern times.
We learnt about this lost plaque from the information panel attached to the Portico, the only remains of Wilson's home, Woodlands. gives the inscription. That BHO entry is dated 1956 and speaks of the plaque in the present tense, so we know it was erected on the Portico before 1956 and lost before the information panel was erected (c.2000 would be our guess for the earliest that could be).
Site: Captain James Wilson (1 memorial)
SE15, Ruskin Park
We have not found any images of the plaque so instead we are using the two photos of the house in which Wilson lived, held by the London Picture Archive, front and back.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them