Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lambeth, England

By Michael Herrick, May 3, 2018

D-Day Anniversary Marker

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1 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth — D-Day Anniversary —

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of D-Day 6th June 1944 In memory of the railway employees who gave their lives on the 6th June 1944 Railtrack South West — — Map (db m118205) WM

2 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth — Laurence Olivier —

Laurence Olivier O.M. Actor 1907 – 1989 Baron Olivier of Brighton Founding Director of the National Theatre 1963 – 1973 More than two hundred, mainly theatre and film people and institutions, contributed to the Laurence . . . — — Map (db m118345) HM

3 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth — Roll of Honor —

Roll of Honor 1914- 1918 Names of the Company’s Employees Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War ( there are four plaques, one outside and one inside on each side of the entranceways into the station ) — — Map (db m118203) WM

4 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth — Southern Railway World War II Memorial —

To the Memory of the 626 Men of the Southern Railway Who Gave Their Lives In the 1939 – 1945 War — — Map (db m118206) WM

5 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth — St John’s War Memorial —

Erected by the Nursing Staff in honour of the patients who died in the King George Hospital HM Stationery Offices Stamford Street used as a military hospital during the war ( inscribed around the top of the column ) Greater love . . . — — Map (db m118702) WM

6 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth — The Wellington Hotel & Public House —

The Wellington Hotel & Public House The Wellington takes its name after Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), the first Duke of Wellington and Prime Minister from 1828-30 and 1834. Victor of the battle of Waterloo in 1815, Waterloo Train Station, Waterloo . . . — — Map (db m118346) HM

7 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth, South Bank — The Special Operations Executive — S•O•E —

was secretly formed for the purpose of recruiting agents, men and women of many nationalities who would volunteer to continue the fight for freedom, by performing acts of sabotage in countries occupied by the enemy during the Second World War. . . . — — Map (db m240782) HM WM

8 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth, Vauxhall — The Lambeth Cholera Epidemic —

This plaque remembers the thousands of Lambeth residents who died in the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century. You are standing close to what was the busy junction of Broad Street, Upper and Lower Fore Street before the building of . . . — — Map (db m241239) HM

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9 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Lambeth, Vauxhall — White Hart Dock —

The origins of a dock and slipway at this site can be traced back to the 14th century. The present retaining structure was built c1868 as a parish dock when the Albert Embankment was constructed by the Metropolitan Board of Works to improve . . . — — Map (db m241240) HM