This garden was laid out in 1887 by Julia Countess of Ducie.
God saw the earth and behold it was very good. Have we done our best to make it very good?
The quotation comes from Genesis 1:31. The question is an addition.
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The Red Cross Cottages were designed by Elijah Hoole.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 3
Wife of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, Third Earl of Ducie. There is no portrait and...
Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two r...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Red Cross Garden 3
London County Council The workshop of Thomas Chippendale and his son, cabinet makers, stood near this site, 1753 - 1813.
It seems strange that the Dean of Armagh, based in Armagh, Ireland should be residing in what would then have been a village to the north...
Installed by 19 September 2016, with little ceremony.
English Heritage Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1895 - 1967, conductor, lived and died in a flat in this building.
Swami Vivekananda, 1863 - 1902, Hindu philosopher lived here in 1896. English Heritage
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