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.

{Small square plaque:}
Architects: Shankland Cox
Contractors: Wates Special Works Limited

{Rectangular plaque:}
Converted for Rodinglea Housing Association Ltd
Opened 24 May 1985 by Rt Hon Peter Shore MP.

British & Foreign Sailors Society
Patron - Rear-Admiral His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall & York KG GCMG
President - the Honourable J. H. Angas
Treasurer - Alderman Sir Joseph C. Dimsdale MP
This memorial stone was laid XI.VII.MCMI by the Right Honourable Frank Green Lord Mayor of the City of London
"The earth is the lords and the fulness hereof".

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) lived here.
LCC, 1920.

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) lived here for 31 years.
LCC

In memory of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS, LLD, etc, statesman, administrator and naturalist: founder of the colony and city of Singapore, January 29th 1819. Born July 5th 1781. Died at Highwood, Middlesex, July 5th 1826, and buried near this tablet.
Erected in 1887 by members of the family.

Beneath this stone lie the remains of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieut. Governor of Java, 1811 - 1819 and founder of Singapore 1819, who died July 5th 1826, aged 45 years.

This image comes from the opening credit sequence of the 1943 Humphrey Jennings documentary film 'Fires Were Started'.  Actually, we were watching 'I Was a Fireman', Jennings's first cut of the film which ran to 74 minutes and was shortened to 63 minutes for release, but that probably makes no difference to this shot. We were pleased with ourselves for recognising the location.

Coventry Patmore, 1823 - 1896, poet and essayist, lived here 1858 - 1860.
Historic Buildings of the London Borough of Haringey

In memoriam: Margaret Graham, 1804 - 1864, celebrated aeronaut and first British woman to fly solo, in 1826. Buried nearby. Wife of aeronaut and chemist George Graham, 1784 - 1867.

King Louis The Griff, 2018 - 2019, lived here.

1872 - 1884: This building housed Beckenham's first volunteer fire brigade, using a cart pulled by horses borrowed from nearby residents and traders whenever a fire broke out. The lion's head spout was used to refresh the horses with water piped from the Thames by the then Lambeth Water Company.
Erected at the millennium by Copers Cope Area Residents' Association

This garden celebrates the contribution of the myriad Black feet which walked upon this and other lands. In particular the descendants of pioneers who travelled filled with hope from the Caribbean in 1948 on board MV Empire Windrush, helping to establish multi-cultural Britain.

{Either side of a portrait bust of Charles Jones:}
Charles Jones 1830
M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I. 1913

{Below the bust, the following text either side of the Ealing Council crest and the motto, Respice Prospice:}
Fifty yrs surveyor and engineer to the Ealing Local Authority from 25 May 1863 until his decease 24 Aug 1913.
Lamented, regretted.
Circumspice

{Main plaque, around pictures of Gresley and Flying Scotsman and Mallard locomotives:}
Sir Nigel Gresley 1876 - 1941.
Sir Nigel Gresley lived in Hadley Wood in 1923 - 29 and used this station daily. He designed powerful, elegant and fast locomotives, including the world-famous Flying Scotsman and Mallard, which still holds the world speed record for steam locomotives. They were the first truly high speed trains.

This plaque was commissioned in 2016 by The Hadley Wood Rail User Group and The Gresley Society Trust.

{Small plaque below:}
Plaque unveiled 7th October 2017 by Michael Portillo.