The New River opened 1613 to bring fresh water from Hertfordshire to London.
As far as we know (and we have walked the full length) this is the only such plaque on the New River. Finsbury Park was created in 1869 so it's possible it was erected then, or possibly in 1913, to celebrate the 300th anniversary.
N4, Finsbury Park
Our thanks to Mandy for adding scale to our photo.
The dates on the plaque confuse Smith (1712 - 1795) with his father, Johann Christoph Schmidt (1683–1762/3), also confusingly later known...
This images comes from Google Street View which is where we saw this large blue plaque (the round one on the building, not the oblong one...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
The official Norway site provides useful background information for this plaque. Â See also the Norwegian gratitude stone.
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