http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/on-heroic-self-sacrifice-a-london-park-devoted-to-those-most-worth-remembering/ History with all the interesting bits left in Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/on-heroic-self-sacrifice-a-london-park-devoted-to-those-most-worth-remembering/#comment-1602 Chris Golden Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:57:48 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=5513#comment-1602 The park is indeed an oasis of peace, a haven of (relative) quiet within the bustle of the City, but it still stands in the shadow of the General Post Office building, whose function as a post office my have long disappeared, but whose imposing presence has not: the building now serves as the London office of Nomura, and I worked in it for a number of years. The park is indeed an oasis of peace, a haven of (relative) quiet within the bustle of the City, but it still stands in the shadow of the General Post Office building, whose function as a post office my have long disappeared, but whose imposing presence has not: the building now serves as the London office of Nomura, and I worked in it for a number of years.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/on-heroic-self-sacrifice-a-london-park-devoted-to-those-most-worth-remembering/#comment-1596 Czora Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:39:58 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=5513#comment-1596 In celebration of unsung heroes and heroines, past, present and in the future. In celebration of unsung heroes and heroines, past, present and in the future.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/on-heroic-self-sacrifice-a-london-park-devoted-to-those-most-worth-remembering/#comment-1593 Jared Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:46 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=5513#comment-1593 It would seem that G.F. Watts is himself worthy of such a plaque -- sacrificing countless time and personal wealth to commemorate those previously unknown persons who so nobly gave their lives to save their fellow man It would seem that G.F. Watts is himself worthy of such a plaque — sacrificing countless time and personal wealth to commemorate those previously unknown persons who so nobly gave their lives to save their fellow man

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