Twitter feed for the Friends of the Watts Memorial, Postman's Park, London
London, England
Joined November 2015
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Our website has recently been updated with a new sign-up form and event listings. Stop by for a look! It's FREE to join the Friends!
#postmanspark #heroism #gfwatts #wattsmemorial #everydayheroes
wattsmemorial.org.uk/
Guided walk about Postman's Park and Everyday Heroism!
Sunday 8 June
More information and tickets at ticketsource.co.uk/drjohnpri…
#wattsmemorial #gfwatts #postmanspark #walkingtour #historywalks #londonhistory #heroism #everydayheroism
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Still a few spaces left on these #historywalks this weekend and next. Book you slot here: drjohnprice.net/upcoming-eve…
#history #guidedwalks #newcross #deptford #lewisham #postmanspark #wattsmemorial #gfwatts
We're mostly over on Instagram now for our social media. Come and see us over there to keep up to date with things (there's lots going on!)
instagram.com/wattsmemorial
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Our next meeting is on 4 February and we are delighted to welcome back Public Historian Dr John Price for part 2 of his Postman's Park talk - the Forgotten Heroes: who are the 84 heroic individuals missing from the Watts Memorial? #London #History @JpaPrice @WattsMemorial
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#onthisday in 1871 #everydayhero firefighter Joseph Ford was laid to rest in @AbneyParkN16 Hear about the controversy at his inquest in this new @Placecloud podcast placecloud.io/viewpoint/the-…
@LFBMuseum @LondonFire @HistoryGold #history #heroism #twitterhistorians #londonhistory
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147 years ago #OnThisDay London commuter Charles Emery leapt from a Thames steamboat to try and save a boy from drowning! @Placecloud @WattsMemorial #OTD #everydayheroes #heroism #london #history placecloud.io/viewpoint/the-…
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#OnThisDay in 1873, #EverydayHero Ellen Donovan asked "Are the poor brats out?" before running into a blazing building to try and save them. @Placecloud @WattsMemorial @Everydayheroism #postmanspark #OTD #history #heroism placecloud.io/viewpoint/the-…
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#OnThisDay in 1876, London Fireman George Lee lost his life heroically trying to save others. Hear his story in this new podcast in the series #everydayheroes of #postmanspark on @Placecloud. @WattsMemorial @LondonFire @twitterhistorians
placecloud.io/viewpoint/the-…
If you love the Watts Memorial in Postman's Park, you can now explore all the heroic incidents via @Historypin. A great initiative!
📢 Exciting news alert! 📢 You can now explore the #Everydayheroes of #Postmanspark on Historypin @Historypin. You can locate all the incidents that feature on the Watts Memorial and add information of your own! Happy exploring! historypin.org/en/the-everyd…
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You can now hear a series of short podcasts about the Everyday Heroes of Postman's Park on @Placecloud with more being added soon! Let us know which stories you want to hear. placecloud.io/author/johnpri…
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What a treat we have for you: @JpaPrice has joined Placecloud with a series of #viewpoints telling true stories of extraordinary heroism in London in the 19th and 20th centuries. Check out his map here: placecloud.io/author/johnpri… #twitterstorians
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First up, the heartbreaking story (15m) of Alice Ayres who lost her life saving young members of her family during a fire in Southwark in the spring of 1885. Alice's story became famous and remains a keystone of 'everyday heroism': placecloud.io/viewpoint/the-… @JpaPrice
We have now rectified the issues with our website. We're pleased to say everything works again now! Thank you for your patience.
We support the decision by stakeholders not to add further tablets to the Watts Memorial. We do, however, strongly support the idea to make Postman's Park, as a whole, a commemorative garden dedicated to civilian heroism and will put our full weight behind that plan.
We are currently experiencing some issues with our website, partly due to the volume of traffic we are experiencing. Please bear with us, we're doing our best to get things sorted!
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Friday's IHR #openaccess book chapter is John Price's study of Victorian popular heroism and self-sacrifice jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4w3whm…
#VirtualIHR #twitterstorians
@JpaPrice @HistoryGold
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Lovely evening talking with the #Docklands History Group about @WattsMemorial; thanks for the invite and the attentive and appreciative audience. #gigging
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What a coincidence! This is one of the 'Forgotten Heroes of Postman's Park' who I'm researching at the moment; people who were listed to featured on the @WattsMemorial but who got forgotten.
It is now FREE to become a Friend of the Watts Memorial! Why not join and help support us in our work wattsmemorial.org.uk #heroism #gfwatts #London #postmanspark