The Postman’s Park in the City of London, England, is home to the famous Watts memorial, built in 1900 by Victorian painter and philanthropist GF Watts (1817-1904).
Watts was a radical socialist with strong sympathies towards the dreadful living conditions of the urban poor, and in 1887, wrote to the Times proposing that a park commemorating ‘heroic men and women’ who had given their lives attempting to save others would be a worthy way to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee year. This eventually took the form of the Watts gallery in Postman’s Park.
Click the following thumbnails to view these plaques in high resolution on Geneanet or click here to access the memorial project.
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