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Plaque

Hiroshima - College Place - plaque

Erection date: /5/1988

Inscription

"Only shadows were left" said a survivor of Hiroshima in 1945.
This mural was created as a symbol of hope for a future of peace and a nuclear-free world.
Paul Donnelly & Geoff Staden

We believe this plaque was erected in 1985, the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima, as part of the international . Disappointingly we cannot find an image of the mural to which the plaque refers.

We found Donnelly and Staden in the at a 1983 art exhibition at the South London Gallery of work by 10 artists from SPACE studios in Deptford.

2022: Staden contacted us - see our page for the mural.

Site: College Place - Sewers + Hiroshima (3 memorials)

NW1, College Place

The door to the right is the entrance to .

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Peace and a world free from nuclear weapons

Concept, Peace

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Eno...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
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Paul Donnelly

Artist. We think Donnelly may be the instructor mentioned in this 2010 Cerami...

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Geoff Staden

Artist. We believe Glimpse @53 is about our man: "London born Geoff went to G...

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Hiroshima - College Place - mural

In 2022 Geoff Staden kindly sent us the photo of the mural and the following ...

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Sewers - College Place

See Herbal Hill for a similar plaque.

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