{Circular plaque, around a drawing of the viaduct and St James's Bermondsey church, above a shield and a banner:}
London and Greenwich Railway, 1836
SE8, Deptford High Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
London and Greenwich Railway - Deptford
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, larg...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
London and Greenwich Railway - Deptford
This is Local London news item is useful. The LEB is mentioned on the plaque because at the time they owned the building, the former fire...
The feast of St Alphege is 19 April, which in 1880 was a Monday. He was Archbishop of Canterbury 1006-12. Captured by Vikings and kille...
Queen's drummer Roger Taylor unveiled the plaque.
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847 - 1929, pioneer of women's suffrage, lived and died here. London County Council
The weather vane depicts a grid-iron, the instrument used for the torture which led to the martyrdom of St Lawrence. The shaft supportin...
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