Erection date: 10/2/1997
{On circular plaque:}
In memory of the young people who died, New Cross fire, 18 January 1981.
{On rectangular plaque below are listed 14 names. See Subjects commemorated.}
Unveiled by Sybil Phoenix, a community leader who had been called to the scene the morning after the fire.
SE6, Rushey Green, Lewisham Town Hall
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
New Cross Fire - Town Hall
A fire at a teenagers' birthday party caused the death of 14 young people, 13...
Berbeck actually escaped the fire, but became mentally disturbed and died aft...
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man:Â Humphrey Geoffrey...
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Peter Desmond Cam...
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Steve Constantine...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
New Cross Fire - Town Hall
Born Sybil Theodora Phoenix Marshall in British Guiana (now Guyana). Communit...
Built for the Salvation Army in 1910. Their Women's Social Work HQ moved here in 1911 from offices at another nearby Salvation Army addr...
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
April 2016: Our colleague Alan Patient reports that this plaque is now lost, or, at the very least hidden, behind the large "White Space...
The reports of the fund-raising campaign for this plaque named "historian Geoff Simmons" and it was said that the plaque would be "unveil...
At the north end of Post Office Court, attached to the west wall adjoining St Mary Woolnoth, are six salvaged carved panels. We have numb...
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