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Guest Event – Postman’s Park: Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London – Guided Walk
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Join Historian and Author Dr John Price on a guided history walk exploring Victorian heroism and the Watts Memorial.
This walk will start at the Red Cross Garden in Southwark and make its way through London to finish at Postman's Park. On the way, the history of the Watts Memorial, and stories of those commemorated, will be revealed.
The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman’s Park London is a Victorian monument dedicated to people who lost their own life while attempt to save the life of another. It was conceived and built by the Victorian artist George Frederic Watts and unveiled to the public in 1900.
The memorial is dedicated to ‘everyday’ heroism; acts of life-risking bravery, undertaken by otherwise ordinary people, largely in the course of their everyday life, and usually within commonplace surroundings. 62 people are commemorated on 54 ceramic tablets mounted upon a wall within a wooden cloister.
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