{Plaque on the west side of the obelisk:}
The gift of a few friends. Erected 1888.

{Plaque on the base:}
"Drink, Pilgrim, Here! Here rest! And if thy heart be innocent, here too shalt thou refresh thy spirit, listening to some gentle sound or passing gale or hum of murmuring bees!"
S. T. Coleridge

{Beneath a hippopotamus and a pair of sculls:}
On this site stood Searle's Boathouse, the first home of Leander Club, founded in 1818 and based in Henley-on-Thames since 1896.
This stone was placed by Leander members to mark the club's bicentenary in 2018.

Even with the raised perspective achieved by standing on the surrounding wall, our photo does not show the all-important shapes of the flowerbeds. The much more informative aerial photo comes from Voice Online.

Dame Margaret Rutherford and Alaistair Sim motion picture comedy greats, remembered by the British Comedy Society.
Commemorating the centenary of cinema, 1996.
In association with the British Film Institute.

Thomas De Quincey, 1785-1859, man of letters, lived here.
LCC

Sir John Mills, Oscar-winning star of motion pictures including Borehamwood-made movies: Those Were the Days, Ice Cold in Alex, It's Great to be Young, Dunkirk, Operation Crossbow, Dulcima.
Unveiled by Hayley Mills.
Commemorating the centenary of cinema, 1996.
In association with the British Film Institute.

Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1803 - 1873, novelist, born here.
LCC

John Thadeus Delane, 1817-1879, editor of The Times from 1841 to 1877, lived here.
LCC

R.N.L.B. William Henry & Mary King

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, poet & philosopher, lived here.
LCC

This plaque honours Bryan Forbes CBE, distinguished film director, author and actor, who was head of production at EMI Elstree Studios 1969 - 1971.
Elstree & Borehamwood Town Council
2008

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Aurea', Sweet Gum, planted by the Lady Mayoress, Lady Bidwell, 8th June 1990.

This fountain is erected on the site of Ham House for many years the residence of Samuel & Elizabeth Gurney and their family, 1876.

Elizabeth Fry, promoter of prison reform, lived here, 1829 - 1844.

{Main panel, in lead, above doorway:}
Passmore Edwards Sailors Palace
Headquarters British and Foreign Sailors Society

{In the stone beneath main panel, either side of Britannia's crown:}
Eurus Notus Boreas Zephyrus

{In the stone around the archway, knotted together:]
America Africa Oceania Australia Asia Europe

{Small square plaque:}
Niven and Wigglesworth Architects
Dove Bros Builders

This foundation stone was laid in the first year of the reign of King Edward the Seventh by his Grace the Duke of Fife GCVO vice patron British & Foreign Sailors Society and Lord Lieutenant of the County of London.
The sea is his & he made it.

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Architects: Shankland Cox
Contractors: Wates Special Works Limited

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Converted for Rodinglea Housing Association Ltd
Opened 24 May 1985 by Rt Hon Peter Shore MP.